Sunday Morning, Krispy Kreme and California Pizza Kitchen

 

Sunday morning, Bubba, Tabs (Joyce my cutesy sister) and I drove to Fort to walk Chili, Jam’s beloved dog.  We played catch at the same vacant spot where we played Frisbee before.  It started to drizzle so we transferred to Bonifacio High Street.  When we got there, the drizzle stopped.  Since the two are heavy lumbers, I was the one who ran with Chili.  We kept running and running until she had enough exercise (although Chili is a she, I was referring to myself). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Krispy Kreme was our stop for our morning breakfast.  Sweet sugar loaded doughnuts early in the morning and steaming hot chocolate –that’s what you call power breakfast?  So powerful that 2 seconds into the rush, Bubba had sugar crash.  We ordered the usual of original glazed and Bubba’s favorite Hershey’s treats while we also tried the new Reese peanut butter doughnuts.  I am a total Reese girl, but the peanut butter taste was a bit milder than expected.

 

 

Around lunchtime we headed over to CPK Greenhills branch.  I got a Chicken Adobo Pizza coupon from Blog Bank that I decided to use that day.

 

On the Table:

 

Spinach Artichoke Dip PHP 625

Spinach and Artichoke dip served hot with blue and white tortilla chips.  One of the usual appetizers ordered whenever at CPK.  The chips this time around were quite smaller than what’s served in their Shangri-la branch.  This appetizer was one of our conversation pieces on the table that day.  We were trying to figure out what’s artichoke in Filipino.

 

 

Mediterranean Salad PHP 355

A chilled salad of cucumber, red onions, fresh tomatoes and greek olives.  Tossed with crisp Romaine leaves in lemon-herb vinaigrette, served on a bed of creamy hummus.  Topped with feta cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, and Tzatziki sauce.  Served with 2 slices of pita bread.  This is the dish the majority agreed on that day –tug of war on portions. 

 

 

Goat Cheese with Roasted Peppers PHP 515

Mild goat cheese with roasted red and yellow bell peppers, grilled Japanese eggplant, Mozzarella cheese, caramelized onions, Italian parsley in tomato-based pizza.  Goat cheese and roasted peppers on pizza –what can go wrong? 

 

 

Kung Pao Spaghetti PHP 255

A classic Kung Pao sauce with garlic, green onions, peanuts and HOT red chilies

 

 

Chicken Adobo Pizza

I didn’t get to try this but my sister Joanne and Bubba seemed to like it better than the goat cheese pizza.

 

 

 

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Definitely Amore at CPK

 

Definitely Amore at CPK

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s California Pizza Kitchen.  And there’s definitely love at CPK.  Invites to the Make Your Own Pizza event were sent out and eager participants were not shunned away by the rain and Wednesday’s heavy traffic on the evening of September 10, Wednesday.

 

 

Kitchen adventures always intrigue me as a lot of things happen in the kitchen (after all, isn’t that supposed to be the most exciting part of any quarters… or do I hear bedroom echoing somewhere)?  The culinary excitement started when we were asked to choose from a variety of titles:  Bollywood, Where’s the Way, etc.  The choice was Bollywood –vivacious barely clad bodies and energetic music suddenly entered the mind.   We were then handed a CPK box with a cap inside.

 

 

The enclosed area was so packed that tables had to be arranged outside the reserved venue to accommodate more participants.  The history of California Pizza Kitchen flickered on the LCD screen.  Lawyers who became restaurateurs founded CPK.  The brilliant JR Hernandez hosted the event, while Chef Archie Rodriguez, President of Global Restaurant Concepts, Inc. opened the culinary session by demonstrating how their premium pizzas are made.

 

 

Top-quality ingredients such as handpicked Roma tomatoes, imported Italian sausage, special dough and other premium goods were readily available to help recreate any of the more than 30 pizza offerings of California Pizza Kitchen.

 

Recreating the California-style pizza was a cinch with the freshest ingredient and the knowledgeable team of CPK Philippine franchise behind the counter.

 

 

Make Your Own Pizza participants then arranged these high-quality ingredients on top of special dough before baking them in a hearth oven. “Our hearth oven baking process creates a pizza crust characteristic of fine bread. It also retains the color, texture and taste of our toppings, lending our pizzas a distinct and complex flavor,” explained Rodriguez.

 

The guests had the chance to savor their different creations, which were served fresh from the oven.  From the curry based Tandoori Chicken, spicy Thai Chicken to the smoky sweet Jamaican Jerk Chicken, the international pizzas of California Pizza Kitchen offer a taste of the world.

 

 

“Our pizzas draw inspiration from the diverse culinary heritage of the Golden State, which is called home by many migrant cultures,” said Rodriguez. “This is why California is also a melting pot of flavorful cuisines—a culinary heritage mirrored in the pizzas of California Pizza Kitchen.”

 

CPK menu include: Pizzas, Salads and Appetizers, Soups, Pastas, Focaccia Sandwiches, Desserts, Smoothies, Beverages, Blended Beverages.  I remember having one of my lunch meetings at CPK Shangri-la  2 months ago and not one dish disappoint.

 

“Our range of pizzas encourage Filipinos to be adventurous so that they enter California Pizza Kitchen, thinking: ‘Maybe I’ll try a new pizza today’. Because whether it’s Goat Cheese with Roasted Peppers or Tuna Melt, we want our pizzas to be as exciting as they are satisfying to the palate,” said Rodriguez.

 

 

The Philippine franchise is owned by Global Restaurant Concepts, Inc. and currently operates 6 branches located in: Glorietta 3, Alabang Town Center, Shangri-la Plaza Mall, Trinoma Mall, Greenhills Shopping Center, Powerplant Mall.  In California Pizza Kitchen, abandon normalcy and embark on a gastronomic adventure –order a pizza you’ve never tried before, and enjoy the thrill of traveling the world through its premium slices.

 

 

For inquiries on reservation or delivery, call California Pizza Kitchen at 867-2115 to 16 (Glorietta 3), 850-5771 (Cortes de las Palmas, Alabang Town Center), 687-7841 to 42 (Shangri-La Plaza Mall), 725-7377 (Greenhills Promenade), 901-3881 to 82 (Trinoma) and 895-3447 (Power Plant Mall, Rockwell).

 

Global website: http://www.cpk.com/menu/ Philippine website: http://globalresto.com

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