: a baked patty shell filled with meat, fowl, game, or seafood in sauce
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Follow with escargots en vol-au-vent, gnocchi à la Parisienne and boeuf bourguignon.—
Melinda Sheckells,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025 There’s also a Special 20th Anniversary entree this year: seafood vol-au-vent, shrimp and scallops in a butter sauce in a petite French pastry, which McMullen’s staff is very proud of.—
Amy Drew Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 Aug. 2025 Classic French dishes Carême pioneered included vol-au-vent, filling a puff pastry with savory foods, and tournedos Rossini, a French steak topped with foie gras.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
30 Apr. 2025 Family-friendly Offerings Although there isn't a kids' club, the hotel caters to families with quite a few connecting rooms and amenities like mini bathrobes and slippers, kids-sized pajamas, small umbrellas, Stokke high chairs, and a kids' menu with dishes like pork curry vol-au-vent.—
Amber Gibson,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Apr. 2025 Priced at $75 for adults and $35 for children, the menu offerings include pumpkin soup, fall salad or baked brie to start; turkey plate, prime ribeye roast or vegetarian vol-au-vent for the main course and pecan pie, pumpkin layered cake or chocolate brownie with butterscotch ice cream.—
Mackensy Lunsford,
The Tennessean,
1 Nov. 2024 Henri loudly praised my mother’s vol-au-vents, my father’s wine selection, the house, the furniture, our car, and the Japanese maple out front; Marie-Céleste nodded and smiled.—
Lucy Sante,
The New Yorker,
11 Nov. 2023 Recent menus included lunches of free-range guinea fowl with corn polenta and marinated carrots and dinners of lobster vol-au-vent with white pudding and spinach.—
Marianna Cerini,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 Nov. 2023