Guido Niño-Torres

At Lycée français de Cali, Guido Niño-Torres picked up the discipline and finish that later show up in his kitchen work. That training then carried him to France, where he went on to work as Head Chef at Likoké in Les Vans, France. The path is straightforward: school, border crossing, kitchen leadership. What is notable is the steadiness of it, with Niño-Torres moving from training into responsibility with a controlled hand.

The line from Lycée français de Cali to Les Vans, France, points to a cook shaped between contexts. Niño-Torres’s early role placed him inside that approach, working from within the kitchen and contributing to the daily shape of the place.

Niño-Torres’s current role is chef at Likoké in Les Vans, France. The title follows his earlier work there as chef de cuisine. Seen as a sequence, the career has a clean logic: a Colombian cook trained at Lycée français de Cali entered a French restaurant kitchen and remains there as chef. Likoké in Les Vans, France, carries both the earlier responsibility and the present one, with Niño-Torres’s role changing while the address stays the same.

The record is spare by design: a school, a town, a restaurant, and a kitchen language built around precision and flexibility. Niño-Torres works within that frame, where technique is not just about control but about keeping the work open. At Likoké, the present chapter reads as a continuation rather than a break.

Guido Niño-Torres is associated with Likoké's creative cuisine.

Guido's honors include Michelin Green Star (2025). Moved to France in 2012 for a CAP in cuisine in Avignon.