Their food is great, but I've known multiple people who've had horrible experiences in the kitchen. The chef really seems to talk the talk about building a positive environment and then used straight-up abuse tactics with a good friend who worked there (e.g. hiring her with a promised salary and then once she'd quit her other job being told, "oh, maybe you'll make that eventually but we're going to start you off at roughly half that" and swearing up and down that she'd "make sure [my friend] never worked in another kitchen again" if she left Nightshade).

Kitchens aren't the friendliest places to work in general, but this shit was beyond the pale. It's so disappointing.