California Pizza Kitchen

Dinner today was at California Pizza Kitchen. After having 1 of the most fabulous thin crust pizzas ever in Little Italy, Kota Kinabalu, I have been wanting to have more of that in SG. California Pizza Kitchen has been around since early 2000s, if not earlier. The pizzas there are different from the norm (peking duck pizza!) but are delectably innovative and the service is good in that it doesn't take long for the food to be served and the waiters are polite and attentive.

We started with their famous appetisers - the Singapore Shrimp Rolls. According to the official website, this is described as "Shrimp, baby broccoli, soy-glazed Shiitake mushrooms, spinach, carrots, rice noodles, bean sprouts, green onion and cilantro wrapped in rice paper. Served chilled with a sesame-ginger dipping sauce and Szechuan slaw." The Slog Reviews: 6.5/10. This dish cost S$11.80, isn't filling and seems to be a poor imitation of the Vietnamese rice roll with shrimps which you could get a Vietnamese restaurant. The sauce is also cloyingly sweet and the clump of slaw or whatever that is, is pretty tasteless.


According to their website, the pizzas have honey-wheat with whole grain crust. No wonder I found myself finishing the crust of each slice I took. :D I let my friend decide on the pizza and he chose the Chipotle Chicken pizza which is supposed to be hot and spicy. It wasn't in any way hot and spicy and despite its appearance, it is very good. The Slog Reviews:8/10. The grilled chipotle chicken blended nicely with the Mozzarella and Enchilado cheeses and the toppings of roasted corn & black bean salsa, cilantro and lime cream sauce made a mouth-watering combo!