California Pizza Kitchen is a casual-dining restaurant serving up California creativity through its innovative menu items in Irvine. Home of the original BBQ Chicken Pizza we also feature a wide variety of other pizzas, salads, pastas, sandwiches, gluten-free and vegetarian options, premium wines, beers, and handcrafted beverages not to mention our delicious desserts! Open for Lunch or Dinner, CPK has something for everyone and now we offer catering and delivery.
Chain eatery serving up inventive pizzas, plus pastas & salads in a modern setting. Based on 847 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.1 stars. Price $$
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Curbside pickup ✔️ No-contact delivery

Address:
5465 Alton Pkwy, Irvine, CA 92604
Phone: (949) 396-1120
Website:
Hours
| Friday |
11 AM–11 PM |
| Saturday |
11 AM–11 PM |
| Sunday |
11 AM–10 PM |
| Monday
(Labor Day)
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11 AM–10 PM
Hours might differ
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| Tuesday |
11 AM–10 PM |
| Wednesday |
11 AM–10 PM |
| Thursday |
11 AM–10 PM |
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Reviews
Tim Chan
Food is good and the service is meh. Our only issue was that the service was quite slow. I’m assuming they were short staffed because the place wasn’t full but we still had to wait a while for a table. Not once did we get any refills of our drinks. The waiter was very friendly but he was rarely around.
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NMC
My parents and I came here tonight [1/28/23] very excited at first but then were disappointed. A waitress (Ana) when we got there to seat us tried to give me a crayon and coloring set when you can tell my age I’m 16 years old, tall for age and you can obviously tell by looking at me. I look older then I should which I am always told by strangers. She even made eye contact with my before trying to give me them. I honestly feel offended. After we were seated, a different waitress (Madeline) took our drink and food order. We finished our appetizers before we had our drinks (A different staff gave us some chips with this really good spinach dip.) The drinks were simple too…Water, Coke cola, and the mango tea without sweetener. We waited and waited and waited but she didn’t give us our drinks for about 20 minutes. Our waitress kept forgetting to give my dad his drink refill and she never gave us our bread. Another staff member did. We also asked for napkins but again she never gave us some another staff member had to give us some. Eventually she did give my dad his refill as he had asked her once again. My dad liked his pizza and my mom liked her shrimp scampi zucchini dish she said it was bland but she still liked it. I ordered the California Club pizza and it wasn’t good. I was so disappointed. It was very dry both of my parents tried it and agreed. There was a overwhelming amount of lettuce. The bacon and my crust was burnt. I get that sometimes pizza gets burnt but way more charred then it should have been. That’s how burnt it was.
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Alicia Rauch
Jose and Marcel were fabulous at the bar! I order a bacon BBQ chicken pizza with pineapple and the strawberry salad. I had a lot of requests and they nailed it!
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Catherine A L
At first I was impatient about waiting for a table. But after seeing how short staffed they were and how hard everyone was trying, I changed my tune. Each person took a great deal of pride in their work and each person was very personable. The food was good. It’s very difficult to find good people now. I might take a few people off the “to-go” area to help the host/hostesses, they are giving people food, making sure each party is set up, that’s what it appears. Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised and we will keep going.
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Hesam Abedini
Great costumer service and very nice staff members! Our server was very kind and friendly. The space is clean and nice plus plenty of seating options. The food was good but it is not the best! I highly recommend checking out their small plates! Their cucumber drink is really good, too. We also got one take and bake pizza per entree order and it is definitely worth it.
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Musey Buchanan
The Service is terrible. I was trying to make reservations but they said that there’s no waiting time at all. When we came two hours later we wait OUTSIDE IN THE HEAT FOR 34 minutes!!!
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Milena Tintcheva
This is the first time we come for lunch in a while and we’re so disappointed with the service. We have a 16 month old who was so patient for 45 minutes. We waited close to 15 minutes to be seated and then another 30 to get the food. We were ready and ordered as soon as we sat down and asked for the appetizers first so we could feed the baby. About 20 mins after we ordered we asked our server to check on the appetizers and she never came back. The appetizers came after the rest of the food. There were 6 or 7 other tables with 2 other servers at the time and it was around 2pm on the weekend – not busy. We waited patiently but we did let the server know our child was hungry when we sat down. I always have sympathy for servers but I am so disappointed with the service. If you have small children I don’t recommend.
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Life’s Good
Looking for some hot soup on a cold drizzly night. This was the place The tomato basil soup was to die for Mom had the split pee soup she said it was also excellent We had bread with seasoned oil on a plate to dip it and two small pizzas. Our waitress was very tentative, friendly making suggestions asked if we were reward members, which we did not know you could have a membership. She suggested a mango fruit iced tea which turned out to be awesomely delicious, when dinner was over we declined on desserts as we were full but our lovely waitress offered me a to-go cup and a fill up of my new favorite mango iced tea. Will definitely be coming back when I visit Irvine till next time & =
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Don Rutti
Pizza is just ok and service is good. I had the BBQ chicken pizza. I remember it tasting much better a few years ago. It seems they are skimping on the chicken and BBQ sauce. It’s a nice atmosphere for drinking cocktails and hanging with friends though.
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Erick Chern
Friendly staff
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