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	<title>VICTORY HOTEL</title>
	
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		<title>Mother’s Day Menu</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mothers Day &#8211; Sunday May 12, 2013 <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><a href="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/s-Day-Menu-2013-_2_.pdf">Mothers Day Menu 2013 PDF &#8211; click here</a></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center">Price:</p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center">Two Course = $50 per head</p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center">Three course = $65 per head</p> <p style="text-align: left;">]]></description>
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<h1>Mothers Day &#8211; Sunday May 12, 2013</h1>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><a href="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/s-Day-Menu-2013-_2_.pdf">Mothers Day Menu 2013 PDF &#8211; click here</a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><strong>Price:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center">Two Course = $50 per head</p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center">Three course = $65 per head</p>
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		<title>Valentine’s Day Dinner – Thu 14 Feb 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/valentines-image-300x320.jpg"></a>Valentine’s Day Dinner &#8211; Thursday 14th February 2013 Early sitting 6-00pm until 8-00pm Later sitting 8-15pm <p>&#160;</p> <p>Entrée, Main and Dessert $75.00</p> <p>Entrée and Main $60.00</p> <p>Main and Dessert $60.00</p> <p>Price includes a glass of:</p> <p>Billecart-Salmon Brut Reserve Champagne – Epernay, France</p> <p>or</p> <p>Rockford “Black Shiraz” Sparkling Shiraz – Barossa Valley, SA</p> <p>Phone: (08) [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><a href="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/valentines-image-300x320.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-985" title="valentines day dinner - Thu Feb 14" src="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/valentines-image-300x320.jpg" alt="valentines day dinner - Thu Feb 14" width="300" height="320" /></a>Valentine’s Day Dinner &#8211; Thursday 14th February 2013</h2>
<h2>Early sitting 6-00pm until 8-00pm</h2>
<h2>Later sitting 8-15pm</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Entrée, Main and Dessert $75.00</strong></p>
<p><strong>Entrée and Main $60.00</strong></p>
<p><strong>Main and Dessert $60.00</strong></p>
<p>Price includes a glass of:</p>
<p><em>Billecart-Salmon Brut Reserve Champagne – Epernay, France</em></p>
<p>or</p>
<p><em>Rockford “Black Shiraz” Sparkling Shiraz – Barossa Valley, SA</em></p>
<p><strong>Phone: (08) 8556 3083 or (08) 8556 3072 to book</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/victory-hotel-valentines-dinner.pdf" target="_blank">Victory Hotel &#8211; Valentine&#8217;s Day Dinner &#8211; menu PDF</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3>Entrée</h3>
<p>Myponga Beach salt &amp; pepper squid with aioli, chilli &amp; spring onion</p>
<p>Blue swimmer crab &amp; smoked ocean trout tians w an avocado, mango &amp; cucumber salsa</p>
<p>Chicken, lime leaf &amp; coriander spring rolls with chilli sambal</p>
<p>Water chestnut, oyster mushroom &amp; tofu spring rolls with chilli sambal</p>
<p>Buffalo mozzarella, zucchini, &amp; heirloom tomato salad with Kalamata olive tapenade</p>
<p>Chicken liver parfait with house-made brioche, caramalised onion, cornichons &amp; celery cress</p>
<h3>Main</h3>
<p>Roast pork belly with an apple tart tatin, grilled bug tail &amp; a watercress salad</p>
<p>Roasted free range chicken breast with a potato &amp; baby spinach rosti, capsicum coulis &amp; a feta &amp; rocket salad</p>
<p>Jamon wrapped braised duck leg ballotine with leek puree, roast shallots, braised witlof &amp; jus</p>
<p>Butternut pumpkin, capsicum, Persian feta, charred corn, farro &amp; quinoa salad with salsa verde</p>
<p>Clare Valley 300g Scotch Fillet with hand cut chips, roasted roma tomato, basil pesto and jus</p>
<p>Kangaroo Island King George Whiting &#8211; Coopers beer battered, crumbed or grilled</p>
<p>Fish of the Day &#8211; see the specials board</p>
<h3>Dessert</h3>
<p>Cinnamon donuts with vanilla apple sauce &amp; cinnamon icecream</p>
<p>Dark chocolate &amp; cherry tart with Kirsch Cherry Icecream</p>
<p>Ginger crème brulee with confit pineapple, sugared pistachios &amp; pistachio biscotti</p>
<p>Warm traditional sticky date pudding with caramel sauce &amp; a creamy vanilla bean icecream</p>
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		<title>Christmas 2012 bookings</title>
		<link>http://victoryhotel.com.au/?p=962</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/vineyards-autumn-2012-img_9907_1000.jpg"></a>If you haven&#8217;t organised your Christmas function, best to get in soon &#8211; we&#8217;re almost booked out!</p> <p>Menus can be viewed here:</p> <a href="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Christmas-Menu-2012-13.pdf" target="_blank">Christmas Menu 2012-13 PDF</a> <a href="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Christmas-Function-Menu-20122.pdf" target="_blank">Christmas Function Menu 2012 PDF</a> We only take bookings by phone, please contact us on (08) 8556 3083 or (08) 8556 3072.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/vineyards-autumn-2012-img_9907_1000.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-970" title="vineyards-autumn-2012-img_9907_1000" src="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/vineyards-autumn-2012-img_9907_1000-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a>If you haven&#8217;t organised your Christmas function, best to get in soon &#8211; we&#8217;re almost booked out!</p>
<p>Menus can be viewed here:</p>
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<li><a href="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Christmas-Menu-2012-13.pdf" target="_blank">Christmas Menu 2012-13 PDF</a></li>
<li><a href="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Christmas-Function-Menu-20122.pdf" target="_blank">Christmas Function Menu 2012 PDF</a></li>
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<div>We only take bookings by phone, please contact us on (08) 8556 3083 or (08) 8556 3072.</div>
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		<title>Vale Cru @ The Victory Hotel – Sunday 14th October</title>
		<link>http://victoryhotel.com.au/?p=927</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join the Vale Cru for an afternoon tasting small batch, high quality McLaren Vale winemakers&#8230;This year&#8217;s theme is sure to appeal to your senses - CRU, Cheese &#38; Chocolate. <p></p> <p>Expect all of the good things in life in one fun afternoon.</p> General Admission &#8211; $38.50 + Booking Fee Early Bird Special - $35.00 + Booking Fee [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Join the Vale Cru for an afternoon tasting small batch, high quality McLaren Vale winemakers&#8230;This year&#8217;s theme is sure to appeal to your senses -</h3>
<h2>CRU, Cheese &amp; Chocolate.</h2>
<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-930" title="VALE CRU SUN 14 OCT 2012" src="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/VALE-CRU-SUN-14-OCT-2012-1000-300x152.jpg" alt="VALE CRU SUN 14 OCT 2012" width="300" height="152" /></p>
<p>Expect all of the good things in life in one fun afternoon.</p>
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<li>General Admission &#8211; $38.50 + Booking Fee</li>
<li>Early Bird Special - $35.00 + Booking Fee</li>
<li>Group Rate (Buy 9 get 10<sup>th</sup> free) - $360.00</li>
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<p><a href="http://www.trybooking.com/BVPL" target="_blank">BOOK ONLINE @ www.trybooking.com/BVPL</a></p>
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<div>VENUE:</div>
<div>THE VICTORY HOTEL</div>
<div>Main South Road, Sellicks Beach, McLaren Vale, South Australia 5174</div>
<div>CONTACT DETAILS AND MORE INFORMATION:</div>
<div><a href="http://valecru.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/vale-cru-victory-hotel-sunday-14th.html" target="_blank">http://valecru.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/vale-cru-victory-hotel-sunday-14th.html</a></div>
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		<title>Vale Cru Twilight Tasting – Sunday 15 April</title>
		<link>http://victoryhotel.com.au/?p=716</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 04:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/value-cru-tasting-15-apr-2012.jpg"></a>Join us for the Twilight Tasting with the Vale Cru!</p> <p>Join the <a title="Vale Cru" href="http://www.valecru.com.au" target="_blank">Vale Cru</a> for a twilight tasting in the new Piazza delle Valle. We are celebrating A+ Australian wines with the Artisan producers of the Vale.</p> <p>The fabulous Yearlings will be playing, the sausages will be sizzling and for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/value-cru-tasting-15-apr-2012.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-718" title="vale cru tasting 15 apr 2012" src="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/value-cru-tasting-15-apr-2012-212x300.jpg" alt="vale cru tasting 15 apr 2012" width="212" height="300" /></a>Join us for the Twilight Tasting with the Vale Cru!</p>
<p>Join the <a title="Vale Cru" href="http://www.valecru.com.au" target="_blank">Vale Cru</a> for a twilight tasting in the new Piazza delle Valle. We are celebrating A+ Australian wines with the Artisan producers of the Vale.</p>
<p>The fabulous Yearlings will be playing, the sausages will be sizzling and for $10 you get three tastings. Extra tasting tickets can be purchased for $5 for 3 tastes or you can trade in 3 tickets for a 100 ml pour of your favourite cru.</p>
<p>Tastings from 5pm-7pm Sunday the 15th of April in the Piazza. Tickets available at <a title="Fall from Grace" href="http://www.fallfromgrace.com.au" target="_blank">Fall from Grace</a>, My booking manager and by phone 08 83238089.</p>
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		<title>Victory Hotel – taking the children along</title>
		<link>http://victoryhotel.com.au/?p=696</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.littlelattes.com.au/victory-hotel.html" target="_blank"></a>The Victory Hotel has been reviewed by &#8220;little lattes &#8211; places to go with little tackers in tow&#8221;</p> <p>Eating out &#8211; out of town &#8211; find out about features, facilities and menu options here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.littlelattes.com.au/victory-hotel.html" target="_blank">www.littlelattes.com.au/victory-hotel</a></p>]]></description>
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<p>Eating out &#8211; out of town &#8211; find out about features, facilities and menu options here:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.littlelattes.com.au/victory-hotel.html" target="_blank">www.littlelattes.com.au/victory-hotel</a></p>
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		<title>Victory tops 482 Adelaide Restaurants</title>
		<link>http://victoryhotel.com.au/?p=508</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/victory_12.jpg"></a>Victory Hotel Restaurant &#8211; No 1 of 482 Adelaide Restaurants on <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Restaurants-g255093-Adelaide_South_Australia.html" target="_blank">www.tripadvisor.com.au</a> on 16 Jan 2012.</p> <p>Trip Advisor ranks Restaurants based on public reviews and ratings. <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Restaurants-g255093-Adelaide_South_Australia.html" target="_blank">View Adelaide&#8217;s top ranking restaurants today</a>.</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/victory_12.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-639" title="Victory Hotel" src="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/victory_12-300x198.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="198" /></a>Victory Hotel Restaurant &#8211; No 1 of 482 Adelaide Restaurants on <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Restaurants-g255093-Adelaide_South_Australia.html" target="_blank">www.tripadvisor.com.au</a> on 16 Jan 2012.</p>
<p>Trip Advisor ranks Restaurants based on public reviews and ratings. <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Restaurants-g255093-Adelaide_South_Australia.html" target="_blank">View Adelaide&#8217;s top ranking restaurants today</a>.</p>
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		<title>Slice of Heaven – Australian Gourmet Traveller</title>
		<link>http://victoryhotel.com.au/?p=542</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/gmtLogo_150x581.gif"></a>&#8220;Since Govan took over the Victory in 1989 it has been a beacon of good taste for food and wine lovers. Meals here are great &#8211; Goolwa cockles with chorizo, garlic, chilli and tomato reads like a checklist of my favourite flavours &#8211; but the wine collection is phenomenal&#8221;</p> <p>Kendall Hill, Australian Gourmet Traveller, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/gmtLogo_150x581.gif"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-543" title="gmtLogo_150x58" src="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/gmtLogo_150x581.gif" alt="" width="150" height="58" /></a>&#8220;Since Govan took over the Victory in 1989 it has been a beacon of good taste for food and wine lovers. Meals here are great &#8211; Goolwa cockles with chorizo, garlic, chilli and tomato reads like a checklist of my favourite flavours &#8211; but the wine collection is phenomenal&#8221;</p>
<p>Kendall Hill, Australian Gourmet Traveller, August 2011 p164</p>
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		<title>Tweet from Vinography</title>
		<link>http://victoryhotel.com.au/?p=566</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 12:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Sitting in what may be the single greatest collection of Australian wine in the world &#8212; the cellar at Victory hotel in McLaren Vale&#8221;</p> <p>Alder Yarrow, Tweet, Vinography, <a href="http://www.vinography.com" target="_blank">www.vinography.com</a> - 26 March 2010</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Sitting in what may be the single greatest collection of Australian wine in the world &#8212; the cellar at Victory hotel in McLaren Vale&#8221;</p>
<p>Alder Yarrow, Tweet, Vinography, <a href="http://www.vinography.com" target="_blank">www.vinography.com</a> - 26 March 2010</p>
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		<title>A Hunger for Willunga – Necia Wilden</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/the_australian_600x90.png"></a>&#8220;Nice surprise No 1: Something odd happens on the way to the loo at the Victory Hotel, high above Sellicks Beach in South Australia. No, it’s not the detour to the wine cellar, though you can call me a patronising eastern-states type for being dazzled to see, in a country pub, the sort of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/the_australian_600x90.png"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-671" title="The Australian" src="http://victoryhotel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/the_australian_600x90-300x45.png" alt="" width="300" height="45" /></a>&#8220;Nice surprise No 1: Something odd happens on the way to the loo at the Victory Hotel, high above Sellicks Beach in South Australia. No, it’s not the detour to the wine cellar, though you can call me a patronising eastern-states type for being dazzled to see, in a country pub, the sort of vast, international, rare-vintage collection I normally only ever read about in Wine Spectator magazine. But that’s less odd than the sight of one of the other rooms. The one full of poker machines. The first room of poker machines I’ve ever seen that doesn’t have anybody in it. Not one, lonely, glazed-eye gambler. It is 6.30pm on a Saturday and the large and modern dining room is in happy uproar, the crowds spilling out on to the deck, the staff ferrying plates of fashionable food behind them. For anyone who feels even slightly ambivalent about the cross-country march of the one-armed bandits, this is an intoxicating sight. It looks even more intoxicating after a glass of Billecart-Salmon at $14 a pop.&#8221;</p>
<p>Necia Wilden - The Australian, 8 Aug 2009</p>
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