The phrase "a modest local" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a person or establishment that is humble or unassuming in nature, often in a local context.
Example: "The restaurant is a modest local spot that serves delicious homemade dishes."
Alternatives: "a humble local" or "a simple local".
To Mr Scardino, a modest local club was like the local paper he used to run in Savannah, Georgia: it offered a place in the community.
An iconoclastic Californian, Kluwe developed a modest local following as a video-game enthusiast, a Twitter savant and the bass player in a grunge-rock band, Tripping Icarus.
Mould helped build Trussell during the Labour boom years, when it was conceived as a modest local complement to the welfare state.
When Carhart, an American living in Paris, decides to buy a used piano, he meets Luc, a modest local piano dealer and repairman, who not only sells him one but becomes something of a mentor.
The small place -- actually 4,515 square feet with the porch -- cost $16,599 when a modest local home here 85 miles north of Manhattan could be had for $1,000.
One day you might be working with a modest local start-up, the next you may be coordinating a large-scale logistics strategy with a multinational firm.
While dismantling a major federal agency remains a long shot, the more modest local efforts have notched victories in at least a dozen communities.
It spreads imperious, widely spoken tongues like English at the expense of more modest, local ones, as an introduced species of animal or plant drives out less robust natives.
José was a modest player for the even more modest local team at this former fishing village.
Nuclear magnetic resonance measurements indicate that lipidation exerts only a modest and local effect on the Cav3 structure, with little impact on the structures of the N-terminal domain, the scaffolding domain, and the extreme C-terminus.
The beach isn't as wide or as long as the beaches at some other properties, however -- it's about a third of a mile long -- and on one end it abuts modest local homes.
