: a dish composed of puff pastry layered with a filling (such as salmon or cream)
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Dinner is a little heartier—think tomato carpaccio, followed by chicken supreme, and an apple mille-feuille for dessert.
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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
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
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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
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
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