: a dish composed of puff pastry layered with a filling (such as salmon or cream)
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Dinner is equally compelling, with dishes like Karoo lamb cutlets and milk tart mille-feuille, paired with stellar syrahs and chardonnays from the Cape.
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Mary Holland, Time, 12 Mar. 2026
The couple tells Vogue that one of their first viral videos was of them making cabbage mille-feuille nabe, a Japanese dish of layered pork and cabbage in a dashi broth.
—Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 14 Jan. 2026
Dinner is a little heartier—think tomato carpaccio, followed by chicken supreme, and an apple mille-feuille for dessert.
—Heather Richardson, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2025
The slit details in the pencil skirts, sleek coats and color block knits and the mille-feuille dresses tapped into the codes of Jil Sander with great accuracy.
—Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025
Finally, top it all off with pistachio cherry mille-feuille made all the more enticing with cherry compote.
—Rebecca Deurlein, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
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.
—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
For dessert, there will be banana mille-feuille ($14) and pain perdu ($15), or French toast.
—Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Nov. 2024
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Mary Holland, Time, 12 Mar. 2026
The couple tells Vogue that one of their first viral videos was of them making cabbage mille-feuille nabe, a Japanese dish of layered pork and cabbage in a dashi broth.
—Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 14 Jan. 2026
Dinner is a little heartier—think tomato carpaccio, followed by chicken supreme, and an apple mille-feuille for dessert.
—Heather Richardson, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2025
The slit details in the pencil skirts, sleek coats and color block knits and the mille-feuille dresses tapped into the codes of Jil Sander with great accuracy.
—Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025
Finally, top it all off with pistachio cherry mille-feuille made all the more enticing with cherry compote.
—Rebecca Deurlein, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
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.
—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
For dessert, there will be banana mille-feuille ($14) and pain perdu ($15), or French toast.
—Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Mille-feuille.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mille-feuille. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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