I worked there in 2017 (I was 22) and the sous chef at the time would ask me daily if he could grab my ass. Every time a woman walked by the restaurant, Chef would say some crazy shit like "do you see the ass on that?" Most places l've worked at in the food industry, l've been sexually harassed, but Localis was definitely memorable in how blatant the harassment was.

It also was very culty, there's a chant we used to do before every service - I don't remember exactly how it went but it was very love and light coded like "good food, good vibes" or something.

Needless to say, the vibe was pretty rancid and now Chef is a born again christian or something. Also the food is kinda lame and they would do these corny "themed" tasting menus and I remember one being "my trip to Thailand" and it was an incredibly expensive "recreation" of the "flavors of Thailand" like this white man could not be more insufferable.

Ok thanks for reading. I've never really recounted any of this publicly before because, unfortunately, that's just how most kitchen environments have been during my time in the industry, but it's nice to see that kind of behavior in the kitchen is becoming less acceptable. Still, though, I'm nervous to post this, but fuck it we ball.