This Western Springs Restaurant Is Back

WESTERN SPRINGS, IL – The longtime Vie Restaurant in Western Springs, which closed in October, reopened Tuesday with a new focus and a slightly different name, Petite Vie.

Petite Vie is at 909 Burlington Ave., where Hash Stacks Café & Market was before it closed in November 2022.

Last year, Vie Restaurant, which was at 4471 Lawn Ave., announced it was closing after 19 years because of "irreconcilable differences" with its landlord.

At the time, it promised to reopen at a new location in town, but didn't give details.

Paul Virant, owner of Vie Restaurant and Petite Vie, has the same role for Vistro Prime steakhouse in Hinsdale and Gaijin, a Japanese restaurant in Chicago.

Earlier this year, Virant appeared on NBC Chicago's "Chicago Today" and described Petite Vie.

"It's going to be smaller," Virant said. "We're going all French, café, brasserie. A lot of my formal training in the past was French food, so it's kind of fun to have a chance to go back to my roots."