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The menu moves between Japanese American comfort dishes such as Okinawan taco rice, udon carbonara and matcha roulade and brunch staples including biscuit Benedicts, almond croissants and fresh handmade pastries.—Melinda Sheckells, HollywoodReporter, 13 Feb. 2026 Instead of regular bread cubes, the base of this dish is buttery croissants.—Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2026 This culinary capital’s breadth of bakeries and pastry shops (now home to more than 1,300) is reason enough to book a flight; your itinerary could pretty much be a list of the city’s best croissants and baguettes alone.—Lane Nieset, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Feb. 2026 The dessert involves a croissant or danish filled with chocolate custard or cream, glazed in ganache then blanketed in cocoa powder.—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for croissant
Word History
Etymology
French, literally, crescent, from Middle French, from present participle of croistre to grow, from Latin crescere — more at crescent