1/25Vili Milisits at his Mile End factory in 2018, celebrating 50 years in business. Picture: Calum Robertson
In pictures: Remembering Vili Milisits
Vili Milisits was a larger than life character who built one of SA’s most iconic brands over a career spanning more than 50 years. Today, we’re honouring his legacy in pictures.
2/25Vili Milisits as a child.
3/25Vili Milisits with one of the pies which made him an SA culinary legend. Picture: Roy VanDerVegt
4/25Pie pioneers Vili Milisits and wife Rosemary, after they were awarded a joint Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours.
5/25Pie king Vili Milisits in 2014. Picture: Roy VanDerVegt
6/25SA business owner, baker Vili Milisits with a portrait painted by Dale Fu Chen for the Archibald national portrait competition.
7/25Vili Milisits shows his trademark enthusiasm at Vilis Cafe in 2014. Picture: Keryn Stevens
8/25Vili Milisits in 2000 as he built a thriving export business.
9/25Vili Milisits at his factory in Mile End in 2018. Picture: Calum Robertson
10/25Vili Milisits handles pastry at his Mile End factory. Picture: Calum Robertson
11/25Another view of the Dale Fu Chen painting of Vili Milisits for the Archibald national portrait competition.
12/25Vili Milisits puts on a show for the camera at his factory. Picture: Calum Robertson
13/25Vili’s take on South Australia’s iconic pie floater. Picture: Keryn Stevens
14/25Vili Milisits and wife Rosemary in their late teens.
15/25Vili and Rosemary Milisits with a different kind of baked goods, on their wedding day.
16/25Gourmet Concetta's Cuisine works out of the Vili's factory. Vili Milisits with Concetta, John and Michael Riemelmoser at the factory.
17/25Vili Milisits at the popular Vilis Cafe. Picture: Keryn Stevens
18/25Vili and Rosemary Milisits celebrate their joint OAM at Alphutte restaurant.
19/25Lunchtime for Vili Milisits at the Vilis Cafe in 2014. Picture: Keryn Stevens
20/25Vili and Rosemary Milisits on their wedding day.
21/25Vili and Rosemary Milisits celebrate as their business turns 40 in 2007. Picture: Keryn Stevens
22/25Baker Vili Milisits and his staff with boxes of pies and pasties for export in 2000.
23/25Vili Milisits with apprentice baker Stefanie Golloko, 23, from Munich. She was paid to work in SA as part of a competition to raise the state’s profile.
24/25SA baker Vili Milisits outside his popular Cafe De Vili's in 2002.
25/25Vili Milisits (bottom left) as a child with his family in Hungary.
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