Tito Le Chef makes his Latin Bistro a stage

Chef Tito Le Chef

​Chef Tito Le Chef — that’s the name on his business cards — sees cooking and dining as theater. That’s not so unusual. But what makes Chef Tito (real name: Vasilio Dios) an actual performer is that his 8-month-old restaurant, the Latin Bistro & Culinary Center (6924 North Oak Trafficway), is designed almost like a stage. There’s a well-lit exhibition kitchen in the center of the room, where Tito cooks in front of his audience on busy nights.

“I don’t want customers,” he tells me. “I want friends.”