Yup - that's really the fundamental reason it was "promoted" - crowd control. I really hope WDW stops doing this - it just wrecks the "Signature Dining" rating for the REAL Sigs
For dinner we leave stuffed! So I do not know how people say it's not enough for the money. And me and DH are pretty big eaters and do not eat like birds by any means! Lol. Most pricier restaurants actually give a lot less food than even Le Cellier. Usually the more money you pay at a restaurant the less you get. Disney I find even at the pricier places you get more food than outside of Disney at a similiar restaurant. Me and DH always eat at/ try fancier restaurants when we travel and have left still hungry and we paid more than at Disney. So I just don't understand how people complain especially about Le Cellier. We even think the quality is not lacking either like some think. As foodies we try a lot of different places on our travels and frankly have very few places we dislike at Disney. Maybe 3-4 we will never eat at again on property and Le Cellier is definately nowhere near being on that list for us!
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When your menu stinks, toss in portion size.For dinner we leave stuffed! So I do not know how people say it's not enough for the money. And me and DH are pretty big eaters and do not eat like birds by any means! Lol. Most pricier restaurants actually give a lot less food than even Le Cellier. Usually the more money you pay at a restaurant the less you get. Disney I find even at the pricier places you get more food than outside of Disney at a similiar restaurant. Me and DH always eat at/ try fancier restaurants when we travel and have left still hungry and we paid more than at Disney. So I just don't understand how people complain especially about Le Cellier. We even think the quality is not lacking either like some think. As foodies we try a lot of different places on our travels and frankly have very few places we dislike at Disney. Maybe 3-4 we will never eat at again on property and Le Cellier is definately nowhere near being on that list for us!
I beg to differ about walking up and getting a ressie. We go at slower times and even then they turn away walk ups every single time we go to Le Cellier. Also booking is still not the easiest unless you book right at 180 days. We checked into changing our ressie to a different day/time at probably 120 days out and all the other days we wanted were not available. Yes there always is ressies left at some point but walk ups are not like you say at least not anytime we go. We have been during free dining and not free dining and they always are turning away walk ups! In fact when we go this trip most of our trip is when free dining is blacked out so yes you get some still on free dining but not as much when it's not blacked out. Even with ressies we usually have to wait at least 30 min if not more to be seated because it is always packed! And we saw at least 3-4 groups get turned away as walk ups while we were waiting saying they are not accepting them because ressies were full on our last visit mid December 2013 when park crowds were at a minimum. I have heard from most that have been the past few months they had the same happen even since the filet change. Might have been a fluke if that happened while you were there but that's still not the norm.
No we have been going for many years including before it went signature when everyone loved it still and portion sizes have never gotten larger! Stayed about the same but not larger. We have also found the quality got BETTER since our very first visit!When your menu stinks, toss in portion size.
. We eat at a lot of "fancy" steak places at home and when traveling and find Le Cellier beats a lot of them or is equal quality. The famous Yachtsman could not cook our steaks right nor could Narcoossees either when we had the surf and turf there! How hard is it to cook a steak Medium?! The most common way and 2 other sigs in Disney could not even get that right! Lol
Agreed, that's the one good point.Hey less of you eat there then it makes the ressies easier for us in the future! lol.
Hmmm maybe so. Did you complain because if you don't then they do not know and do not know what to fix. In December we did not have those issues and I will see what happens in November. I'll be on the lookout!
