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California Pizza Kitchen calorie calculator: build a plate under your cap

Set a calorie cap from 200 to 1,500 and build a California Pizza Kitchen plate from 260 dishes, each counted with the choices it comes with (223 come with an optional side, 35 come with a choice of soup and 2 are served as listed), using California Pizza Kitchen's own published figures, rounded to whole calories and grams. The lightest plate is the California Veggie Pizza (Cauliflower Crust), 1 of 6 slices at 160 calories with its lightest choices. The most protein in a complete meal under 800 is 53 g.

Source: California Pizza Kitchen nutrition guide (official) · Data refreshed

As of October 2026, 260 California Pizza Kitchen dishes can go into a built plate, and the most protein in a complete California Pizza Kitchen meal under 800 calories is 53 g (A Cedar Plank Salmon and a Pacific Thyme).

Build your California Pizza Kitchen plate

Pick a cap, choose what matters, then add, swap or remove a dish, a side or a sauce; a plate keeps the choices it comes with, and the total, the macros and the words to tell your server update as you go.

California Pizza Kitchen meals under 800 calories

Starting points for the builder: one plate with a pick for each of its choices and at most one drink, the best under the cap for each goal, as the MinMax app builds it.

Most protein

  • Cedar Plank Salmon650 cal · 52g
  • Pacific Thyme110 cal · 1g

760 of 800 cal · 53 g protein

What to tell your server: “A Cedar Plank Salmon and a Pacific Thyme.”

Get it at the nearest California Pizza Kitchen →

Most filling

  • Cedar Plank Salmon650 cal · 52g
  • Pacific Thyme110 cal · 1g

760 of 800 cal · 53 g protein

What to tell your server: “A Cedar Plank Salmon and a Pacific Thyme.”

Get it at the nearest California Pizza Kitchen →

Lightest

  • California Veggie Pizza (Cauliflower Crust), 1 of 6 slices160 cal · 7g
  • Acqua Panna0 cal · 0g

160 of 800 cal · 7 g protein

What to tell your server: “A California Veggie Pizza (Cauliflower Crust) — eat 1 of its 6 slices, nothing else, and an Acqua Panna.”

Get it at the nearest California Pizza Kitchen →

The 20 lightest California Pizza Kitchen plates

Each dish alone and with its lightest choices, the plates the builder starts from at a tight cap. Every California Pizza Kitchen row is on the California Pizza Kitchen calories page and in /data/california-pizza-kitchen.json.

Lightest plates at California Pizza Kitchen
DishComes withDish aloneWith its lightest choices
California Veggie Pizza (Cauliflower Crust), 1 of 6 slicesan optional side160160
California Veggie Pizza, 1 of 6 slicesan optional side170170
Hawaiian Pizza (Cauliflower Crust), 1 of 6 slicesan optional side170170
Wild Mushroom Pizza (Cauliflower Crust), 1 of 6 slicesan optional side170170
Wild Mushroom Pizza, 1 of 6 slicesan optional side170170
Hawaiian Pizza, 1 of 6 slicesan optional side180180
Pepperoni Pizza (Cauliflower Crust), 1 of 6 slicesan optional side180180
The Original BBQ Chicken Pizza (Cauliflower Crust), 1 of 6 slicesan optional side180180
Traditional Cheese Pizza (Cauliflower Crust), 1 of 6 slicesan optional side180180
Pepperoni Pizza, 1 of 6 slicesan optional side190190
The Original BBQ Chicken Pizza, 1 of 6 slicesan optional side190190
Tostada Pizza, 1 of 6 slicesan optional side190190
Burnt Ends BBQ Pizza (Cauliflower Crust), 1 of 6 slicesan optional side200200
Burnt Ends BBQ Pizza, 1 of 6 slicesan optional side200200
Five Cheese + Fresh Tomato Pizza (Cauliflower Crust), 1 of 6 slicesan optional side200200
Five Cheese + Fresh Tomato Pizza, 1 of 6 slicesan optional side200200
Mushroom Pepperoni Sausage Pizza, 1 of 6 slicesan optional side200200
Mushroom Pepperoni Sausage Pizza (Cauliflower Crust), 1 of 6 slicesan optional side200200
Neapolitan Burrata Pizza (Cauliflower Crust), 1 of 6 slicesan optional side210210
Thai Chicken Pizza (Cauliflower Crust), 1 of 6 slicesan optional side210210

Eat at California Pizza Kitchen without blowing your cap

MinMax finds the best California Pizza Kitchen meal under your calorie goal — at the location nearest you — and lets you swap items to hit your protein. Free on iPhone.

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