California Pizza Kitchen

Name: California Pizza Kitchen
Address: 531 Cowper St, Palo Alto, California 94301
Phone: (650) 323-7332
Web site: CPK.com
Date & Time visited: Monday, October 1, 2007 8:15 PM
Guests: Jennifer and me
What we had: Sesame chicken dumplings (shared), half Cobb salad (Jen), Thai chicken pizza (me)

The sesame chicken dumplings are really good, spicy and flavorful. They are served in a portion of four, with a mini-salad of shredded cabbage and cucumber and a tasty sauce. Jen ate around half of her cobb salad, which she said was "better than average" though it for some reason came un-mixed, so she had to mix the various ingredients together herself. The Thai chicken pizza is a longtime favorite of mine at CPK, and it didn't disappoint this time.

Service: Not too good. We were in a hard-to-see corner and I think the server forgot about us a few times. We waited several minutes to place our orders and drinks were never refilled. To be sure, this is unusual for this location and is probably an unfortunate combination of inattentive server and bad table location. We'll make sure not to sit there again.

Would we go back: Yes.