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Follow with escargots en vol-au-vent, gnocchi à la Parisienne and boeuf bourguignon.
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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
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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
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“Vol-au-vent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vol-au-vent. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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