: a dish composed of puff pastry layered with a filling (such as salmon or cream)
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There’s a black-and-white mille-feuille featuring crackly chocolate dentelle cookies rolled into cigars and stacked with layers of vanilla and chocolate cream, and an exemplary coconut cake at lunchtime.
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Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
Placing clothes inside it is satisfying, like layering a mille-feuille cake.
—Elisa Wouk Almino, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
The Swans, wore a custom black velvet strapless Schiaparelli with a mille-feuille tail made of 300 pale pink organza petals.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 6 Jan. 2025
Buffets are a religion in Hong Kong and the Fullerton’s is first-rate; at breakfast, the praline mille-feuille finger pastry dipped in fig compote is exquisite.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2024
As the crowning touch on West’s horror-movie mille-feuille, MaXXXine demonstrates that the trilogy never really had all that much going on, depth-wise, despite its sprawl.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 26 June 2024
Some dishes she's created include in La Première: Lobster, pico de gallo and tea sauce or root vegetable mille-feuille with truffle sauce, and in Business, Californian charbonnier with quinoa and marinière sauce or open raviole, courgette and tomato, hazelnut and parmesan sauce.
—Aly Walansky, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
The afternoon concluded with velvety mille-feuilles, the perfect way to end the savory luncheon on a sweet note.
—Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2024
Macarons, tarte tatins and mille-feuilles for days!
—Nicole Russell, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2024
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Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
Placing clothes inside it is satisfying, like layering a mille-feuille cake.
—Elisa Wouk Almino, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
The Swans, wore a custom black velvet strapless Schiaparelli with a mille-feuille tail made of 300 pale pink organza petals.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 6 Jan. 2025
Buffets are a religion in Hong Kong and the Fullerton’s is first-rate; at breakfast, the praline mille-feuille finger pastry dipped in fig compote is exquisite.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2024
As the crowning touch on West’s horror-movie mille-feuille, MaXXXine demonstrates that the trilogy never really had all that much going on, depth-wise, despite its sprawl.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 26 June 2024
Some dishes she's created include in La Première: Lobster, pico de gallo and tea sauce or root vegetable mille-feuille with truffle sauce, and in Business, Californian charbonnier with quinoa and marinière sauce or open raviole, courgette and tomato, hazelnut and parmesan sauce.
—Aly Walansky, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
The afternoon concluded with velvety mille-feuilles, the perfect way to end the savory luncheon on a sweet note.
—Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2024
Macarons, tarte tatins and mille-feuilles for days!
—Nicole Russell, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2024
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“Mille-feuille.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mille-feuille. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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