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California-style pizza is a style of pizza most often associated with the California Pizza Kitchen restaurant chain, but also served in other fusion cuisine restaurants.
While most other styles of pizza are associated with different kinds of crust, the distinguishing feature of California-style pizza is the use of nontraditional toppings that derive from cuisines other than the usual Italian-style tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese, and especially incorporating fresh vegetables such as artichokes. For example, California-style pizza might include Thai pizza topped with bean sprouts and peanut sauce; Mexican pizza topped with salsa, guacamole, and sour cream; Caribbean pizza topped with Jamaican jerk chicken; or chicken pizza with a white creamy garlic sauce. A breakfast pizza is in the same genre, with toppings such as scrambled eggs.
California pizzas are generally smaller than the standard eight-slice Neapolitan; most are single-serving dishes. Due to the "gourmet" nature of the California pizzas, their high menu price often misleads those from the eastern United States; almost no California style pizzas can serve more than two or three at most, yet they cost about the same as a much larger New York-style pizza. While this provides more versatility in individual tastes, it can be surprising to those who are used to the traditional size, expecting a single pizza to serve five or six people.
See also
- California Cuisine
- Chicago-style pizza
- New York-style pizza
- St. Louis-style pizza
- Apizza, or New Haven-style pizza