There's this place in Seattle called Communion.

It's a restaurant and also a vibe.

I visited on a Sunday, so there were church folks here with moms and dads and their kids, right alongside

the young trendy brunch crowd.

There's no taste like home is their tagline, and it does kind of feel like Grandma's house on Thanksgiving.

This is a hot tub using grit and these are the

and there's two thousand.

Chef Christie Brown owns this place with her son Damon and they've hit on something.

I think anything that's important happens around food.

Everything that's important happens around food.

Political conversations, change conversations.

You can't even bring people to the table. The person you

asses is there gonna be food there? They were named one of the top 12

restaurants in the world by Conde Nas Traveler and Christie says that's probably

because they're also about more than just a good meal.

People are hungry for more than just food. They are so hungry for belonging.

They're hungry for safety. like there's so many things. You know that feeling when you finally get something you've wanted for so long that

the joy of it in the moment is is tempered by the fear of losing it.

That's kind of what communion feels like.

It's a black restaurant in a white city.

The stakes are high. These kinds of spots as we know are far and few between. The pressure of keeping a place like this around, for the people who need it most, that's compounded by the reality that the black and brown people who work at communion,

who create these soulful dishes, they're carrying around traditions and

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