‘California Pizza Kitchen’


Loading up on Dough at CPK

January 28th, 2010 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Bread!

A long time ago, I tried out the BBQ Chicken Pizza from California Pizza Kitchen (CPK).  By this time, the restaurant was in Michigan everyone had been raving about it.  I tasted it was really disappointed.  Using BBQ sauce instead of tomato sauce disturbed me, and the onions hidden in the cheese made it even worse.  Later on, I tried many different pizzas from CPK and was pleased.  Yet, since moving to California, I have had very little, if any contact with CPK.  Recently, though, I had the chance for a revisit to their Beverly Hills location and decided to once again try out their BBQ Chicken Pizza.  But this time, I was prepared. Continue Reading»


Beer Me Some Breckenridge Agave Wheat

The taste of skiing?

Colorado is definitely a beer state, and not just because Coors comes from the Rocky Mountain State.  No, it is also home to New Belgium (of Fat Tire fame) and seemingly countless other micro and craft breweries.  While in Breckenridge for a ski weekend, I decided I had to at least try one of these, and because it turned out to be the only one available at dinner, my choice happened to come from the creatively named Breckenridge Brewery.  The brewery, by the way, is actually no longer in Breckenridge, having expanded and moved to Denver in 1992.

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