Reviews of Le Cellier Lunch/Dinner
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Reviewed by KatieAnn179 Review Date: 05/01/2015
Rating: (3) Not Recommended
I wish I'd read the reviews before booking a table here. My sister and I have tried unsuccessfully several times to get a reservation for either lunch or dinner at Le Cellier, and were delighted when we finally got one during our September 2014 trip. Firstly, the dining area is dark and 'atmospheric' - not ideal if you like to see what you're eating; secondly the tables are far too close together - I could literally have cut the meat dish of the lady sitting at the next table; thirdly, the prices are ridiculously expensive. My sister ordered the mushroom pasta, I chose the pork. Sis said the pasta lacked taste and had obviously been left under a heat lamp whilst the other dish was prepared. I had to send my pork dish back as it was undercooked. The server couldn't have been more disinterested if he'd tried and grudgingly took away my pink pork and returned with it literally two minutes later. The meat had obviously been microwaved and, although it was cooked through, it was as tough as a lumberjack's boot. The desserts were ok - maple brulee - but no real flavour and served up with a complete lack of interest. The tip reflected the service - not great, but at least it was something. The dining room itself was too dark - or 'atmospheric' to give it the Disney spin - and it was jammed. It was almost impossible to get out of your seat without hitting the chair behind you, and when a party arrived that had a wheelchair user amongst them, it involved several staff having to lift chairs out of the way and ask patrons to move whilst they did so. There are at least 10 tables too many in this location. On the whole, we did Le Cellier, and won't do it again. Both of us left hungry and quite annoyed at the Dining Plan cost (2 table service 'tickets' each). We wandered round to China and split some chicken and rice to stop the rumbly tummies.
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Food, Prices, Cramped AreaReviewed by SammoDake Review Date: 12/23/2013
Rating: (3) Not Recommended
For many years my wife and I made certain to stop by Le Cellier on every trip. Their cheese soup and delicious cuts of meat were the stuff of legend! Unfortunately after the menu revision a while back when the restaurant upgraded to a premium dining experience (two DDP table credits) the reviews started pouring in and they didn't look pretty. So we started going to Shula's and the Yachtsman for our steak fixes rather than Le Cellier.
This past week my wife had a craving for their cheese soup, so we finally went back to Le Cellier after more than four years. It's definitely going to be another four years before we go back. Four years at the very least!
As always the wait staff was incredibly polite and attentive. Our waitress was from Montreal but had visited Boston and we were from Boston and had visited Montreal, so we briefly swapped stories about where we'd went in one anothers' hometowns. She was so pleasant that we almost didn't notice that everything seemed tighter than it used to be. Clearly someone at Disney decided that too much space was going to waste in here and it was high time they pack another 20% in there.
We each ordered our own appetizers. My wife got the soup and I got the tomato salad. When they arrived we both immediately noticed that the soup portion was maybe half of what they used to serve. A bigger bowl may have cast an illusion that there was as much or more, but there was barely any in there. Rather than bothering with a spoon she used her pretzel bread (which continues to be as delicious as always, though it's too bad that they've ditched the breadstick gimmick) to sop it up, since there was so little soup to be found. I ordered the tomato salad, which involved a bunch of sludgy, flavorless tomatoes topped with four small lumps of mozzarella that was about as fresh as a Kraft string cheese and some balsamic reduction that tasted like it was mostly sugar. I kept trying tomatoes hoping one would be as delicious as the tomato stack that Le Cellier used to have. At no point did it rise above wretched.
For her meal my wife ordered the mushroom filet. The meat was overcooked and the risotto was like vaguely mushroom flavored paste.
I ordered the veal tenderloin and couldn't finish it. The veal was overcooked while the mushrooms were undercooked. If the meat was 'Porcini dusted', I certainly couldn't tell. And the sweetbreads, which should have been the most flavorful part of the meal, were just crusty bags of flavorless fatty goo. The only good part was the mashed celeriac, and that's not much of a statement since it's hard to mess up celeriac puree. Celeriac is amazing.
We looked at dessert for a bit before deciding just to leave. It was already an excessively expenseive and entirely disappointing meal. There was no need to compound it by ordering something we didn't really want, since at some point since we last went Le Cellier got rid of a menu mainstay, their whiskey chocolate cake.
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Serving staff are all very friendly, great breadCons:
Everything else is awfulReviewed by marsdnr Review Date: 02/23/2013
Rating: (3) Not Recommended
Ate here late January. I ordered the sirloin steak medium. I came medium well. That did not bother me but the steak was tough. The knife they give you barely cut the meat. The best part was the bread. I wish they would open a kiosk to sell the bread. Yum.
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lovely dinning roomCons:
foodReviewed by foxycurl Review Date: 02/08/2013
Rating: (3) Recommended
We had a late lunch reservation for 1:45 and we were not seated till well after 2:00. Our waitress was terrible. Took her 15 mins just to get our drink order, two member of our group ordered wine and she forgot about it twice and when we finally said something she acted like we never ordered it. HELLO, She is the one that told us what the house wine was! She never checked on us during our meal, never refill drinks until we asked. We finally figured out what was going on. We were seated where you could see into kitchen. She was to busy with her social life than taking care of her tables. However the food was very good. Husband had the Strip, I had Filet, Mom had the veggie pasta dish, and they were all great. This to me is not worth 2 credits even if service was great. We will not be returning after 7 yrs of trying to get in on each trip. Disappointment!
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ServiceReviewed by Oscar Review Date: 12/31/2023
Rating: (4) Not Recommended
As in past years, my husband and I had Candlelight Processional dinning reservations for December 6 and we were really looking forward to it. Have always had very good food and service. This year the wheels fell off the bus! We declined the table that is right outside of the restrooms (horrible place to have to sit and try to enjoy your meal) and we were sent to the table in the farthest, darkest corner of the restaurant, which is still better than the bathroom runway table. The waiter was not ready to provide service to guests and told us he would be back. Seven minutes later he returned and asked if we were ready to order. We had no menus so, no we were not. When we finally did get menus, he again asked if we were ready to order and did not ask if we had questions about the menu. I did. I asked about the scallops and he said "oh, they were dropped" off of the menu. I asked about the Brussell sprouts and he indicated that the menu is always changing and that the chef trys out new dishes all of the time. Upon recommendation from the waiter, I decided to try the new fish dish and my husband ordered the filet mignon which the waiter said was the customer favorite. We had ordered wine but it was not served until we were halfway through our meals. No one came back to check and see if our food was okay and, in fact, my husband sat looking at his steak for about 20 minutes. At that point the waiter came by (not to see if the meals were correctly prepared) but to see if we were ready for dessert. My husband indicated that he had ordered a medium rare steak and the waiter excused himself to see what was recorded when he took/placed the order. He came back and said, "yes, you did order medium rare and that steak is obviously well done." He blamed the error on the back waiter who delivered his steak to someone else accidentally. He took it away but never asked me about my meal even though I had hardly touched it. My fish appeared to be blackened or something like that. It was not at all flavorful and was very dry. I decided to give up and just drink my wine for dinner. Dessert was Creame Brulé. I love custard but this wasn't that, it was more like pudding and not at all what I had hoped it would be. Overall, the food was bad, and the service was terrible. I guess that's what you get when you refuse to sit at the table on the runway to the toilet. Won't be going back there and paying those prices for such a bad experience.
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We have eaten here before and had good experiences.Cons:
Worst waiter ever. I really did not want to leave a tip at all.Reviewed by zookpr46 Review Date: 10/01/2014
Rating: (4) Not Recommended
I really wanted to love Le Cellier. Everyone I spoke to loved Le Cellier, but I am not a big meat eater (perhaps there is my problem) but my daughter and husband are. We went for lunch, a 2:50 seating, we were seated about 15 minutes after our priority seating time. The atmosphere was very nice. Tables were close together but I didn't think it was too bad. There is not much difference in price at all between lunch and dinner. We ordered the cheese soup and poutine as appetizers. My husband and I enjoyed the cheese soup, it does have a bit of a bite to it. The poutine was very tasty. For dinner my daughter ordered the ribeye, which was a very nice cut and came out perfectly done (it should be for $50) I had the mushroom ravioli (again, not much of a meat eater and yet I am in a steakhouse) I found it to be very very very bland, just ground mushrooms , it did not taste like there was much seasoning at all in it. I didn't even finish it ,it was so bad. My husband ordered the pork dish, he was very disappointed. It had that frou frou presentation where it was a small cube of meat decorated with some berry compote and squiggle of sauce. We spent $200 on a meal and left feeling very empty, perhaps that was just our wallets.I know Disney restaurants are expensive but I expect to get some value for what we are paying. Luckily Food & Wine was going on so we could get a snack after our meal...recommendation...if you really have a hankering for the cheese soup, skip Le Cellier and hit the Canada cart for Food & Wine. We've been to Le Cellier once, and once was enough. I will say that our waitress was very nice and all the staff who worked there were very pleasant, so I guess that is a plus.
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atmosphere, staff, pretzel bread,cheese soupCons:
price, bland flavors, portions/valueReviewed by gcawad Review Date: 03/07/2014
Rating: (4) Not Recommended
This was for years a must do of us, but after taking a couple years off from the parks, then getting invited to fireworks cruises twice on our reservation night a few years passed. Finally we made it back to Le Cellier. Disappointed is an understatement. When did they start only filling the bowls of soup ¼ full? Why is everything so small when the prices have risen each year? We won't be back. Its just as the food and wine portions: ⅓ the portion at double the cost.
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Good foodCons:
price, portionsReviewed by rjeast1 Review Date: 10/18/2013
Rating: (4) Not Recommended
We have eaten here before on several occasions and the food, service was very good. This is the first time we have had to use two dining tickets and the food went down with the additional cost. The steak was somewhat tough, my husbands was not cooked the way he wanted it, the bowl of soup my son ordered was a cup. This place is not what it used to be. The waitress was not friendly, very slow to come to our table, we were cramped along side the wall. just a poor, poor experience. We do not plan to go there anymore. I think that they are now charging two tickets has gone to their head while their food went downhill.
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pretzel breadCons:
server, 2 tickets, not so goodReviewed by aurora3000 Review Date: 09/15/2013
Rating: (4) Not Recommended
We had visited this restaurant a couple of years ago, and had a decent experience. Therefore, we assumed that it would be nice to take my parents for dinner. However, this was a complete waste. We were seated at a far back table and pretty much neglected. Our server acted like she didn't want to be there and we had to flag her down to get a water refill. My steak was overcooked, and our food was overall lack luster. We actually skipped dessert just so we could get out of there. The only plus was that we could walk right out of the restaurant to a good location to view Illuminations. I will not be going back to this restaurant. Very disappointed.
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Convenient location for Illuminations after dinnerCons:
Poor Service and FoodReviewed by DisneyGrandma68 Review Date: 01/21/2013
Rating: (4) Not Recommended
We had eaten here several times for lunch and this time for dinner. The soup is so wonderful, we were happy even after running to the restaurant in a monsoon and all of us were soaked to the bones (December 12th). My son and I ordered the porkchop which was a little dry and tough as it had cooked too long. "Fried Cheddar Cheese Pasta" is macaroni and cheese with a crust and we had something that seemed like a mushroom root on one side of the plate. My son's girlfiend had the lambchop which she said was good but not out of the ordinary as she is an excellent cook in her own right and has cooked us many meals much better tasting than the ones we had. My bill was over $50.00 for one person and I was so very disappointed in the food. I have given 9 and 10 ratings before but even this rating is a little overstated. Sorry to say we will not be going back as a family. We will eat at the Liberty Tree instead.
