In disney right now, just back from our dinner at Le Cellier:
Got to Epcot early, started raining so headed towards Canada for our 6:35 reservation- waited a while, terrible thunderstorms. Girl in lobby was doing trivia games to keep us entertained. Lights flickered after a terrible bang of thunder. Then the manager came out and said that the kitchen gas was down and were experiencing extended delays while crew fixing it and we would be seated soon. They were turning other new reservations away. We were seated shortly after at about 7:10pm, only to find out that the gas was still not fixed and apparently the building was struck by lightning.
We were very disappointed as we had made reservations almost 6 months ago! The server told us the menu was limited at this point and there was no ETA on fixing it- NO FILET!!! She said we were able to order prime rib or halibut but my daughter could only order the pasta (no hot dog/steak).
At this point we were ready to leave but it was still heavilly raining and had already invested almost an hour of waiting. The restuarant was getting pretty empty (they were not seating new diners at this point -only those that had been waiting so long).
There must have been many dissapointed people out there I am sure. Some customers were trying to work out another night but as you know Le Cellier isw booked solid. They were also offering to find another restaurant in substituition for the night (but remember it was dounporing out there)
Surprisingly the prime rib was delicious, so was everything else we were able to order. I was able to get the cheese soup- delicious! Desserts were amazing too! Plus waitress said we got the last pasta, the last sausage appetizer, and almost the last breadsticks...NO SOURDOUGH! I guess things are pre-cooked but they started running out of those too.
By the time we left shortly after 8 we noticed they were seating new tables-the kitchen was back up! Can you believe that? Talk about timing!
By the way, they ended up not charging us AT ALL for the meal so in the long run it was worth the aggrevation
,But will never be worth the disappointment of not being able to experience the full menu and Le Cellier experience 
Got to Epcot early, started raining so headed towards Canada for our 6:35 reservation- waited a while, terrible thunderstorms. Girl in lobby was doing trivia games to keep us entertained. Lights flickered after a terrible bang of thunder. Then the manager came out and said that the kitchen gas was down and were experiencing extended delays while crew fixing it and we would be seated soon. They were turning other new reservations away. We were seated shortly after at about 7:10pm, only to find out that the gas was still not fixed and apparently the building was struck by lightning.
We were very disappointed as we had made reservations almost 6 months ago! The server told us the menu was limited at this point and there was no ETA on fixing it- NO FILET!!! She said we were able to order prime rib or halibut but my daughter could only order the pasta (no hot dog/steak).
At this point we were ready to leave but it was still heavilly raining and had already invested almost an hour of waiting. The restuarant was getting pretty empty (they were not seating new diners at this point -only those that had been waiting so long).
There must have been many dissapointed people out there I am sure. Some customers were trying to work out another night but as you know Le Cellier isw booked solid. They were also offering to find another restaurant in substituition for the night (but remember it was dounporing out there)
Surprisingly the prime rib was delicious, so was everything else we were able to order. I was able to get the cheese soup- delicious! Desserts were amazing too! Plus waitress said we got the last pasta, the last sausage appetizer, and almost the last breadsticks...NO SOURDOUGH! I guess things are pre-cooked but they started running out of those too.
By the time we left shortly after 8 we noticed they were seating new tables-the kitchen was back up! Can you believe that? Talk about timing!
By the way, they ended up not charging us AT ALL for the meal so in the long run it was worth the aggrevation
,But will never be worth the disappointment of not being able to experience the full menu and Le Cellier experience 
But how great they comped your meal. Hope you're having a good time despite the weather. And this way you just have another item on your "next time" list. Which means that you can start planning your next trip as soon as you get back (or while you're there if you want to book bouncback!) 
Sorry to say, no free lunch for us.
That's where they sent us too. (In Oct 2007)
