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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Ben Abbatangelo

‘We absolutely deserve to be here’: the female Aboriginal-owned bar in Melbourne that honours strong Black women

Interlude Bar owners Apryl Day and Kayla Truth.
Interlude Bar owners Apryl Day and Kayla Truth. The venue is a 100% Aboriginal, female-owned and operated business, residing on Wurundjeri Country in Melbourne’s inner south. Photograph: Penny Stephens/The Guardian

“Fine dining, high-end cocktails and gangster rap – the best of us and everything we love in the one place,” Kaylah Truth says, beaming and nodding towards a vinyl collection on the wall that ranges from Wu-Tang Clan to Fleetwood Mac to Baker Boy.

We’re sitting in Interlude, the upmarket cocktail bar and restaurant Truth opened on the Windsor end of Melbourne’s ritzy Chapel Street in April, in partnership with her best friend, Apryl Day.

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