Curry On Pie / Curry Up Pizza

Thanks to Berkeley’s Chez Panisse, Beverly Hills’ Spago, and California Pizza Kitchen chain restaurants, “what’s authentic?” and “pineapple on pizza?” debates gradually gave way to countless “California fusion pizza” recipes with internationally inspired toppings. But as CPK lost its penchant for experimentation, multiple Asian restaurants began stepping up to riff on its formula, recently including Indian-American Curry Pizza House franchises, Long Beach/LA-based Thai Curry Pizza, groundbreaking Vietnamese/Japanese/Italian chain Pizza 4P’s, and its closest Orange County equivalent, Japanese/Italian hotspot Ini Ristorante. Now OC and LA Counties have another option.

Opened in early 2025 and expanded to a second location in 2026, Southern California’s latest Asian pizza chain operates as Curry Up Pizza in Yorba Linda and Curry On Pie just north of OC in Artesia, with nearly identical menus of Indian/American pizzas, chicken wings, appetizers, and salads. Look closely and you’ll note that Curry Up Pizza offers a few extra Indian appetizers and desserts, while Curry On Pie omits Pani Puri, masala mushrooms, and cheese pakoda fritter appetizers, and has a smaller dessert menu with entirely American sweets. Although they’re commonly owned and largely similar, we visited Curry On Pie, so our impressions are focused on the experience at that location.

The vast majority of menu choices are pizzas, divided into mostly American-style “classics,” Indian pizzas, Indian vegetarian pizzas, separate gluten free and halal pies with options drawn from the classic and Indian choices, and a “craft your own” section with nearly 30 toppings to choose from. Five pizza sizes (10-18″) range in price from $20 to $42 as all-inclusive, flat-rate pricing, letting you choose from various crust thicknesses, shapes, and recipes (standard/gluten free/vegan). Better yet, $32 large and $42 extra large pizzas offer a “half-n-half” option, enabling sampling of two different recipes on a single crust for no additional charge.

Several basic salads ($3.50 to $10), roughly a dozen mostly fried appetizers ($5 to $21) including samosas, mozzarella sticks, and fries, and a wide collection of chicken wings ($10 to $33) round out the menu, the latter offered in Indian achari, dry curry, and tandoori versions as well as lemon pepper, BBQ, Buffalo hot, and other versions. After our first visit, our small group’s only regret was skipping the wings, but we knew we’d be too full after several pizzas to eat them. Instead, one member of our group wanted to try the onion rings ($7), which used large pieces of sliced sweet onions with nicely crispy breading – and included range dip – but there weren’t enough rings given the price point.