California Pizza Kitchen Calories & Nutrition (260 plates)

At California Pizza Kitchen a dish comes with choices its nutrition guide prints as separate rows, so this page counts each dish with them: of the 260 dishes that fit a 1,500-calorie cap, 223 come with an optional side, 35 come with a choice of soup and 2 are served as listed. Every total and meal here adds those choices at their printed values; the lightest plate is the California Veggie Pizza (Cauliflower Crust), 1 of 6 slices at 160 calories with its lightest choices.

Source: California Pizza Kitchen nutrition guide (official) · Data refreshed October 17, 2026

• 260 plates
• 160 cal lightest plate
• 202 plates ≤ 1,000 cal
• 78g top protein in one plate

As of October 2026, 202 of the 260 California Pizza Kitchen dishes we track come to 1,000 calories or less with their lightest choices, and the most protein in one plate is 78 g (Sicilian Pizza, 1,440 calories).

How California Pizza Kitchen meals are counted here

• A California Pizza Kitchen pizza, pasta, salad or plate is priced as the whole dish and comes with NOTHING else: the chain's own per-dish copy names only what is on the dish ("WILD MUSHROOM / Shaved cremini mushrooms, extra virgin olive oil, fresh garlic, with Romano, Parmesan & Mozzarella, slivered scallions, and cracked black pepper"), and where a plate DOES come with a side the same menu says so in the same sentence (Cedar Plank Salmon's "Choice of: • white corn & spinach succotash topped with Feta • charred broccolini"). So a side picked here is a side ordered beside the dish, never one the dish already carries. CPK publishes no figure for any of the thirteen à-la-carte sides its ordering menu sells (every one prints basecalories null), so the side a meal adds is a real priced dish: a cup or bowl of soup, or half a salad.
• Cedar Plank Salmon is the one CPK plate that already comes with a side, and the nutrition chart does not say which: it prints one figure, 650, while the printed menu prints "[cal.500-650] / Choice of: • white corn & spinach succotash topped with Feta • charred broccolini" and the ordering menu prints basecalories 500, maxcalories 650, separator "-" with the same two choices. So 650 is a whole plate with a side already counted and nothing may be added to it. The Protein Packed version takes the same plate: the printed menu prints it on the same block, "PROTEIN PACKED OPTION with Piccata Sauce, 59g Protein [cal.820]".
• A CPK lunch duo is a main and a soup or salad, and the printed menu says so in one sentence: "Each duo comes with a cup of soup or lunch size salad." Its own STEP 3 lists what fills it — the three soup cups and four LUNCH SIZE SALADS. The nutrition chart prices the soups (170, 260, 270 cal a cup) and carries NO lunch-size salad at all: that is a third salad size, and the chart's smallest BBQ Chopped is the 660-cal half, twice the printed menu's 330. So a duo here composes with a cup of soup, never with a salad, and the gap is written down in the reader's CPK_COVERAGE_GAPS rather than filled with a guess. Lunch duos are served Monday to Friday, 11 AM to 4 PM.

A meal is one plate (the dish and a valid pick for each of its choices, never the same row twice) and at most one drink, and its totals are the printed rows added together. 1 dish is listed but never put in a meal: its lightest plate is over 1,500 calories (1). 15 starters are listed on their own and never counted as a meal.

• Sides (13): a cup of Dakota Smashed Pea + Barley soup, a bowl of Dakota Smashed Pea + Barley soup, a cup of Sedona Tortilla soup, a bowl of Sedona Tortilla soup, a cup of Tomato Basil Bisque soup, a bowl of Tomato Basil Bisque soup, a California Cobb Salad with Herb Ranch Dressing (Half), The Charcuterie Salad with Mustard Herb Vinaigrette (Half), an Italian Chopped Salad with Mustard Herb Vinaigrette (Half), half a Crispy Chinese Dumpling Salad, half a Steakhouse Salad, a Thai Crunch Salad with Lime Cilantro Dressing (Half) and The Original BBQ Chicken Chopped Salad with Herb Ranch Dressing (Half).
• Soups (3): a cup of Dakota Smashed Pea + Barley soup, a cup of Sedona Tortilla soup and a cup of Tomato Basil Bisque soup.

Complete California Pizza Kitchen meals under 800 calories

The best plate and drink under 800 calories for each goal, as the MinMax app builds it.

California Pizza Kitchen dishes, lightest plate first

Each dish with what it comes with, alone and with its lightest choices.

California Pizza Kitchen starters

Dishes these meals leave out

California Pizza Kitchen nutrition (lowest calories first)

Calories and macros for the 351 California Pizza Kitchen rows we track, as printed: dishes, sides and choices, drinks and the rest. Also available as JSON.

Source: California Pizza Kitchen nutrition guide (official) · Data refreshed October 17, 2026. Figures are estimates and may change — verify with California Pizza Kitchen. Read how we gather and check this data.

What California Pizza Kitchen dishes come with, in the chain's own words:

• “WILD MUSHROOM Shaved cremini mushrooms, extra virgin olive oil, fresh garlic, with Romano, Parmesan & Mozzarella, slivered scallions, and cracked black pepper. [cal.170] CHICKEN TEQUILA FETTUCCINE Our creamy jalapeño lime sauce with spinach fettuccine, red onions, bell peppers, and fresh cilantro. [cal.1240] CHICKEN OR SALMON PICCATA* With linguini fini, lemon, capers, in a lemon cream sauce. Chicken [cal.1030] Salmon* [cal.1065]” (cdn.sanity.io, read 2026-09-18)
• “LUNCH DUOS PIZZA DUO SANDWICH DUO PASTA DUO SOUP + SALAD DUO Each duo comes with a cup of soup or lunch size salad. STEP 2: CHOOSE YOUR MAIN ITEM STEP 3: CHOOSE YOUR SOUP OR SALAD SOUPS DAKOTA SMASHED PEA + BARLEY [cal.170] TOMATO BASIL BISQUE [cal.270] SEDONA TORTILLA [cal.260]” (cdn.sanity.io, read 2026-09-18)
• “CEDAR PLANK SALMON* North Atlantic salmon roasted on a cedar plank in our hearth oven with smoked paprika and lime. [cal.500-650] Choice of: • white corn & spinach succotash topped with Feta • charred broccolini PROTEIN PACKED OPTION with Piccata Sauce, 59g Protein [cal.820]” (cdn.sanity.io, read 2026-09-18)
• “SOUPS CUP | BOWL TOMATO BASIL BISQUE With a touch of cream, topped with Mediterranean olive oil. cup [cal.270] bowl [cal.540] SEDONA TORTILLA Vine-ripened tomatoes, tomatillos, and corn with mild green chilies, Southwestern spices, and crispy corn tortilla strips. cup [cal.260] bowl [cal.480] DAKOTA SMASHED PEA + BARLEY With barley, carrots, onions, savory herbs, and scallions. cup [cal.170] bowl [cal.340]” (cdn.sanity.io, read 2026-09-18)

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