California Pizza Kitchen – Dubai Festival City

California Pizza Kitchen serves california-styled Pizza using healthy and fresh ingredients with a delicious crispy crust. They don’t limit themselves with Pizza as they do have an enticing array of small plates, Flatbreads, Salads, healthy Power Bowls, Pastas & Desserts. They’ve just introduced some new items in their menu and today’s post is all about the new menu.

Small Plates – Spicy Buffalo Cauliflower – AED 32 – Fresh cauliflower floreets fried to a gold brown with butter milk batter, tossed in buffalo sauce and topped with ranch dressing and garnished with gorgonzola cheese, celery salad and cilantro

Thai Crunch Salad – AED 53 for half – crisp veggies , fresh cilantro with chicken and the crunch of peanuts, wontons and rice sticks. Tossed in Thai peanut dressing

Power Bowl – Banh Mi Bowl – AED 59 – Quinoa, baby kale, fresh cilantro & mint topped with grilled chicken, watermelon radish, fresh avocado, cucumber, carrot, bean sprouts, scallions and sesame seeds. Seved with housemade chili-lime vinaigrette and serrano peppers served chilled.

They had a solid line up of drinks and we loved the watermelon and strawberry cooler which was a combination of fresh watermelon, strawberry puree, lime juice and touch of fresh mint. The drink was refreshing. The spicy buffalo cauliflower was one of a kind, Never enjoyed cauliflower so much. It was the sheer magic of the buffalo sauce. These cauliflowers are also easily filling to your stomach. The Thai crunch salad was like it’s name crunchy with plenty of peanuts. The salad was different but not necessarily an exciting one like the other dishes on the table. The Banh Mi Bowl is a healthy bowl of fresh vegetables and grilled chicken which is see often today as a healthy option. Along with it came in-house made chili-lime vinaigrette and serrano peppers that makes the salad tastier.

California Flat Bread – sonama Grilled chicken

Classic Pizza – Mushroom Pepperoni sausage – AED 59

CPK Original Pizza – AED 55 – Wild Mushroom served with Gluten Free Cauliflower Crust

The Flat breads and Pizza were as good as you would expect from a restaurant specialized in pizzas. The specialty of pizza making at California Pizza kitchen is their innovative approach in serving a healthier Pizza. They make them healthier such as by making their dough from cauliflower but at the same time it doesn’t spoil the original taste of a pizza dough by balancing well with other ingredients. The flavours available at California Pizza kitchen is unique and surely is a new taste to your palate. The kung pao spaghetti was really good with a nice flavour and surely was one of my favourites for the night.

We couldn’t resist not ordering their chocolate fondant. The chocolate fondant came hot with hot chocolate fondant oozing out of the cake when cut open. The hot chocolate fondant along with a cold vanilla ice cream was a perfect combo for a sweet ending here. The Nutella cake was also a good one. It’s a giant piece of cake which can be easily shared.