James Beard-Nominated Communion Chef Opens a New Spot in the Central District! Visitors to Métier Brewing Company’s Cherry Street taproom are now able to get a little something special with that beer. A quick-service restaurant from James Beard-nominated chef Kristi Brown is now open inside it, called Lil’ Brown Girl. Anyone who has eaten at her lauded restaurant, Communion, or had her catering from That Brown Girl Cooks will recognize the dishes — some of her greatest hits are coming back at Lil’ Brown Girl, albeit sometimes in slightly altered formats. The black-eyed pea hummus from Communion will be there, she tells Eater Seattle. So will a version of a salad she made for catered box lunches. It was a boxed mixed greens salad with ham and sweet potato salad and a fried chicken thigh on top with jerk ranch dressing. For Lil’ Brown Girl, chef Lynn Lewis made it into a sandwich, with fried chicken, greens, a spread of roasted yam potato aioli on one side and jerk ranch on the other.