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This is my last dining report for TS restaurants. I saved the most expensive one for last.
LeCellier's Review: - used 2 TS credits here
I had read so many wonderful things about this restaurant on these boards. I was so excited to try it!
We ate here on Friday, Sept. 2 for dinner. This was probably our worst weather day all week. It had rained and rained all day and when we finally arrived at Epcot (after being at MK and MGM), we were soaking wet and very tired. I was glad for the dark, quiet atmosphere.
We had a 6:40pm ADR and we waited about 20 minutes to be seated. We were in the very back corner. It was a very dark and quiet booth and no one was at the 2 tables next to us. I enjoyed this very much!
Ashleigh was our server and I loved talking with her about Canada and her experiences at WDW. She said she was on the international program and had been there 11 1/2 months and was to go home in 2 weeks. She said it has been a wonderful experience. She told us all about her home in Vancouver. She was as much a part of the overall "experience" here as the food was and it was quite enjoyable!
Appetizers: 1 cheese soup (We had to try this after reading so much here about it). It was delicious and the pretzel bread and the other 2 (a multi-grain and sourdough) were wonderful as well, especially dunked in the soup
We also had one of the cheese platters (just to try it). My DD13 didn't really like anything except the apple one. I loved the marscopone cheese one and none of us liked the goat cheese one. It was interesting to try this and it was not at all what I expected.
Entrees: We ordered 2 of the 20 ounce rib eye steaks to share among the 3 of us (DD13, DH and I). DD9 got a kid's meal once again and we paid out of pocket for that. The steaks were good, but I didn't think it was anything really special (no flames please). My DH grills rib-eyes for us all the time at home and I thought they tasted about the same as what he makes. The steak was accompanied by potatoes (small roasted ones) and onions cooked in with them (it was good to eat a bite of onion with the steak).
Desserts: We really weren't thrilled with the dessert menu here (again, please no flames). My DD13 saw someone else eating the apple cobbler and really wanted that and DD9 really wanted a chocolate mousse, so we got one of eat and DH and I nibbled off each. I thought the kid's mousse was really cute and it was good too! The cobbler dessert was HUGE and it came with home-made vanilla bean ice cream (like the one we had at WCC our first night) and it was good, but again, nothing really special I thought.
Drinks: 2 diet cokes (we were looking forward to the smoothies I've heard about here, but Ashleigh said they had just gotten a memo 2 days before saying no specialty drinks allowed on the dining plan anymore and you could not get the sampler dessert either unless you wanted to use it as 2 desserts, which we didn't). DD9 got a soda with her meal and DH had water.
This meal was by far our most expensive. Just for the 2 adult dinners it was $130.40.
I will write a quick review of our CS places next.
All in all, we figure we ate about $1350 worth of food for free on the dining plan. We originally had bought it as part of our package and it would have cost us $960. Getting it free was so wonderful! I have to admit I would never have eaten as these places OR ordered so much food if we weren't on the plan.
I think we used our credits wisely by sharing. I was often full, but never felt overstuffed or sick. I'm glad we got to enjoy HDDR too and treat our friends to one meal! I do love the flexibility of the dining plan and I'm glad they are still pooling the credits. It just worked best for us this way.
In review, we used our 32 TS credits in the following way:
WCC - 2
Crystal Palace - 4 (I wrote this review, but I don't think it went through - I'm having lots of problems with that this time around)
Sci Fi - 2
HDDR - 8
PSB - 4
CRT - 3
LeCellier - 2
50's PTC - 3
Chef Mickey's - 4
LeCellier's Review: - used 2 TS credits here
I had read so many wonderful things about this restaurant on these boards. I was so excited to try it!
We ate here on Friday, Sept. 2 for dinner. This was probably our worst weather day all week. It had rained and rained all day and when we finally arrived at Epcot (after being at MK and MGM), we were soaking wet and very tired. I was glad for the dark, quiet atmosphere.
We had a 6:40pm ADR and we waited about 20 minutes to be seated. We were in the very back corner. It was a very dark and quiet booth and no one was at the 2 tables next to us. I enjoyed this very much!
Ashleigh was our server and I loved talking with her about Canada and her experiences at WDW. She said she was on the international program and had been there 11 1/2 months and was to go home in 2 weeks. She said it has been a wonderful experience. She told us all about her home in Vancouver. She was as much a part of the overall "experience" here as the food was and it was quite enjoyable!
Appetizers: 1 cheese soup (We had to try this after reading so much here about it). It was delicious and the pretzel bread and the other 2 (a multi-grain and sourdough) were wonderful as well, especially dunked in the soup
We also had one of the cheese platters (just to try it). My DD13 didn't really like anything except the apple one. I loved the marscopone cheese one and none of us liked the goat cheese one. It was interesting to try this and it was not at all what I expected.Entrees: We ordered 2 of the 20 ounce rib eye steaks to share among the 3 of us (DD13, DH and I). DD9 got a kid's meal once again and we paid out of pocket for that. The steaks were good, but I didn't think it was anything really special (no flames please). My DH grills rib-eyes for us all the time at home and I thought they tasted about the same as what he makes. The steak was accompanied by potatoes (small roasted ones) and onions cooked in with them (it was good to eat a bite of onion with the steak).
Desserts: We really weren't thrilled with the dessert menu here (again, please no flames). My DD13 saw someone else eating the apple cobbler and really wanted that and DD9 really wanted a chocolate mousse, so we got one of eat and DH and I nibbled off each. I thought the kid's mousse was really cute and it was good too! The cobbler dessert was HUGE and it came with home-made vanilla bean ice cream (like the one we had at WCC our first night) and it was good, but again, nothing really special I thought.
Drinks: 2 diet cokes (we were looking forward to the smoothies I've heard about here, but Ashleigh said they had just gotten a memo 2 days before saying no specialty drinks allowed on the dining plan anymore and you could not get the sampler dessert either unless you wanted to use it as 2 desserts, which we didn't). DD9 got a soda with her meal and DH had water.
This meal was by far our most expensive. Just for the 2 adult dinners it was $130.40.
I will write a quick review of our CS places next.
All in all, we figure we ate about $1350 worth of food for free on the dining plan. We originally had bought it as part of our package and it would have cost us $960. Getting it free was so wonderful! I have to admit I would never have eaten as these places OR ordered so much food if we weren't on the plan.
I think we used our credits wisely by sharing. I was often full, but never felt overstuffed or sick. I'm glad we got to enjoy HDDR too and treat our friends to one meal! I do love the flexibility of the dining plan and I'm glad they are still pooling the credits. It just worked best for us this way.
In review, we used our 32 TS credits in the following way:
WCC - 2
Crystal Palace - 4 (I wrote this review, but I don't think it went through - I'm having lots of problems with that this time around)
Sci Fi - 2
HDDR - 8
PSB - 4
CRT - 3
LeCellier - 2
50's PTC - 3
Chef Mickey's - 4
