haute cuisine
noun
haute cui·sine
ˌōt-kwi-ˈzēn 
: artful or elaborate cuisine
especially
: traditionally elaborate French cuisine
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Some shows concentrate on travel, taking viewers to a different haute cuisine haven or humble hole in the wall each episode.
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Katie Rife, EW.com, 11 May 2025
There are a handful of digressions in the category of local color, such as a francophone farmer who cooks haute cuisine and a bounty hunter nicknamed Preacher, who adorns his violent assaults with Bible verses.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 20 May 2025
No, what makes this French-language show about French history so extra, incredibly French is the namesake protagonist: a dashing, seductive, single-earring-wearing spy who also happens to be a founding father of haute cuisine.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 30 Apr. 2025
If glitz, glamour, and haute cuisine are your things, this quaint cruise into the heart of the Mekong Delta—the opposite of the heart of darkness—is probably not for you.
—Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2025
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Katie Rife, EW.com, 11 May 2025
There are a handful of digressions in the category of local color, such as a francophone farmer who cooks haute cuisine and a bounty hunter nicknamed Preacher, who adorns his violent assaults with Bible verses.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 20 May 2025
No, what makes this French-language show about French history so extra, incredibly French is the namesake protagonist: a dashing, seductive, single-earring-wearing spy who also happens to be a founding father of haute cuisine.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 30 Apr. 2025
If glitz, glamour, and haute cuisine are your things, this quaint cruise into the heart of the Mekong Delta—the opposite of the heart of darkness—is probably not for you.
—Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for haute cuisine
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