Stringbean&Wingnut
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- Dec 27, 2010
For our last ADR of the trip, we were headed to the one, the only, the/Le Cellier.
I had been to Le Cellier years ago on trips with my parents, but Wingnut had never been. I figured that it was high time that we changed that, and made sure when I raced to book the ADR exactly 180 mornings before our trip, I picked an ADR exactly when Le Cellier opened, for the maximum Canadian experience.
I was very excited when this plan fell perfectly into place. I even did a little fist pump in celebration.
(Here's where I should say "no I didn't". But I'm from NJ. OF COURSE I TOTALLY DID.)
"O CANADA..."
Even MORE steak on this trip?? Don't mind if I do!
For those of you that don't know, when Le Cellier first opens in the morning, the staff gathers and sings "O Canada". It's a nice start to the Le Cellier experience, if you're willing to eat steak at 11:30 in the morning.
(Which we very much are.)
Having read many a TR where people were seated in Le Cellier and promptly forgot which province they were in, I was determined to not let this happen to me.
(I took the picture of the A on the menu in the restaurant, then added the "Alberta" at home.)
(Isn't my Microsoft Paint "handwriting" beautiful?)
The view from Alberta:
The view from my side of the table:
The famed breadsticks soon arrived...
I tried the multigrain and pretzel varieties, and thought both were very good. Wingnut only had the pretzel bread, which he deemed "pretty good".
While I stuck with my basic usual seltzer, Wingnut lived it up with a Red Maple, which is raspberry puree and Sprite.
W: "That was a little too sweet, even for me."
For his appetizer, Wingnut got the Roasted Duck Meatballs - with a carmelized onion tartlet and a cherry gastrique.
W: The duck meatballs were really good. I hadn't had anything like that before. It had a cherry reduction on it, which worked well with it. And it was on puffed pastry, which was nice.
Going with the seemingly most popular Le Cellier order method, I chose the Cheddar Cheese Soup.
It was nice and warm and cheesy, just as I had remembered it.
For his entree, Wingnut went with the New York Strip Steak.
W: "It was pretty standard, a good steak, well-cooked. Nothing too special about it. The mashed potatoes were very flavorful, probably making them terrible for you."
Continuing my ordering trend, I chose the Filet with truffle butter sauce - swapping the mushroom risotto for the cream cheese mashed potatoes.
The filet wasn't bad, but it certainly wasn't at the level of the filets I had had throughout the week prior to it. I loved the cream cheese mashed potatoes, they had a great flavor.
When it came time for dessert, Wingnut passed. Not being one to ever turn down dessert, I convinced him to share something with me. He let me choose, and I was torn between the maple creme brulee and the chocolate "moose".
In the end, novelty won.
(Awwww.)
Wingnut took approximately one bite, and said he didn't care for it. I thought that the moose...er, mousse, was pretty good, if a bit too rich by the end. The maple cookies (the tongue cookie is the same flavor as the antler cookies, by the way) were nice and crispy.
Overall, while we didn't LOVE Le Cellier, we didn't hate it either. I really do not believe that it is worth the hype that it does get (but I had that same belief when I first booked the ADR, so no surprises there). Next year, when both lunch and dinner will be 2 credits each, it'll be interesting to see if the hype drops. Honestly, I don't think the food and atmosphere are on the same level as the other signature restaurants. It is certainly not a bad restaurant though (I would probably put the steaks on a level somewhere slightly above a Longhorn or Outback steakhouse).
I also don't think it helped our impression of Le Cellier that we went there AFTER all of the other places with fantastic steaks and other dishes and atmospheres such as California Grill, Artist Point, Jiko, Citricos, etc. But it did fulfill the main reason that I had wanted it for our last day - a nice and filling meal for the rest of our day and travels home.
I had been to Le Cellier years ago on trips with my parents, but Wingnut had never been. I figured that it was high time that we changed that, and made sure when I raced to book the ADR exactly 180 mornings before our trip, I picked an ADR exactly when Le Cellier opened, for the maximum Canadian experience.
I was very excited when this plan fell perfectly into place. I even did a little fist pump in celebration.
(Here's where I should say "no I didn't". But I'm from NJ. OF COURSE I TOTALLY DID.)
"O CANADA..."
Even MORE steak on this trip?? Don't mind if I do!
For those of you that don't know, when Le Cellier first opens in the morning, the staff gathers and sings "O Canada". It's a nice start to the Le Cellier experience, if you're willing to eat steak at 11:30 in the morning.
(Which we very much are.)
Having read many a TR where people were seated in Le Cellier and promptly forgot which province they were in, I was determined to not let this happen to me.
(I took the picture of the A on the menu in the restaurant, then added the "Alberta" at home.)
(Isn't my Microsoft Paint "handwriting" beautiful?)
The view from Alberta:
The view from my side of the table:
The famed breadsticks soon arrived...
I tried the multigrain and pretzel varieties, and thought both were very good. Wingnut only had the pretzel bread, which he deemed "pretty good".
While I stuck with my basic usual seltzer, Wingnut lived it up with a Red Maple, which is raspberry puree and Sprite.
W: "That was a little too sweet, even for me."
For his appetizer, Wingnut got the Roasted Duck Meatballs - with a carmelized onion tartlet and a cherry gastrique.
W: The duck meatballs were really good. I hadn't had anything like that before. It had a cherry reduction on it, which worked well with it. And it was on puffed pastry, which was nice.
Going with the seemingly most popular Le Cellier order method, I chose the Cheddar Cheese Soup.
It was nice and warm and cheesy, just as I had remembered it.
For his entree, Wingnut went with the New York Strip Steak.
W: "It was pretty standard, a good steak, well-cooked. Nothing too special about it. The mashed potatoes were very flavorful, probably making them terrible for you."
Continuing my ordering trend, I chose the Filet with truffle butter sauce - swapping the mushroom risotto for the cream cheese mashed potatoes.
The filet wasn't bad, but it certainly wasn't at the level of the filets I had had throughout the week prior to it. I loved the cream cheese mashed potatoes, they had a great flavor.
When it came time for dessert, Wingnut passed. Not being one to ever turn down dessert, I convinced him to share something with me. He let me choose, and I was torn between the maple creme brulee and the chocolate "moose".
In the end, novelty won.
(Awwww.)
Wingnut took approximately one bite, and said he didn't care for it. I thought that the moose...er, mousse, was pretty good, if a bit too rich by the end. The maple cookies (the tongue cookie is the same flavor as the antler cookies, by the way) were nice and crispy.
Overall, while we didn't LOVE Le Cellier, we didn't hate it either. I really do not believe that it is worth the hype that it does get (but I had that same belief when I first booked the ADR, so no surprises there). Next year, when both lunch and dinner will be 2 credits each, it'll be interesting to see if the hype drops. Honestly, I don't think the food and atmosphere are on the same level as the other signature restaurants. It is certainly not a bad restaurant though (I would probably put the steaks on a level somewhere slightly above a Longhorn or Outback steakhouse).
I also don't think it helped our impression of Le Cellier that we went there AFTER all of the other places with fantastic steaks and other dishes and atmospheres such as California Grill, Artist Point, Jiko, Citricos, etc. But it did fulfill the main reason that I had wanted it for our last day - a nice and filling meal for the rest of our day and travels home.
?). So THANK YOU for this!
I don't think it should be a signature restaurant, especially for lunch next year, but still, it's really good! That chocolate moose is one of my favorite Disney desserts, but I agree, it is really rich and heavy, I am never hungry by the time I order it, but I have to get it, just because it's so good!
I mostly drink water, water, and water, so anything seems sweet.
). 
Soda is always just too sweet for me!
