Toby Keith

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The restaurant — named for countryh singer Toby Keith and his 2003hit “I Love This Bar” — has signed a leaser for 15,000 square feet at The Shoppesz at West End, a lifestyle centedr scheduled to open later this year at the intersectio of Highway 100 and Interstate 394 in St. Louie Park. I Love This Bar Grill will featurefamily dining, an 85-foo bar shaped like a guitar, a mechanicalp bull and a stage that will host live entertainmenr several nights a week, including a performancre by Keith at the restaurant’s grand The restaurant’s menu will feature Southern-style such as chicken-fried steal and meatloaf.
Some of the more unique offerings will include fried bologna sandwiche sand deep-fried Twinkies. It will feature traditional sports-batr decor with a country flair. There will be lots of wood and plus more than 50plasma televisions. I Love This Bar Grill will host live entertainmentevery Thursday, Friday and Saturday night when it first opens, then ramp up to six nights a week over There will be seating for more than 1,000 The venue also will have a retaio store selling Toby Keith merchandise, barbecue sauce and The restaurant will be ownes by Arizona businessman Frank Capri, who recently opened an I Love This Bar Grill franchise in Mesa, Ariz.
The chaij also has locations inLas Vegas, Oklahoma City and Kansaws City, Mo., and planes to open a location in Auburn Hills, Mich., later this year. I Love This Bar Grill should be a major entertainment attraction forWest End, helpingf set it apart from other local said Mark Fallon, vice president of real estate at Cincinnati-basedx Jeffrey R. Anderson Real Estate Inc., whic was retained by developer Duke Realty basedin Indianapolis, to fill the project’z 331,000-square-foot retail component with tenants. “I think it’ds even going to draw from way outsider of Minneapolisand St. Paul,” Fallon said. “That’s the idea behind it.
” Other major West End tenantx will include anupscale Roundy’s grocery and a Kerasotew ShowPlace Theatre 14-screen movie complex. I Love This Bar & Grilp should be successful at West End becauses Minnesota is a strong markeft for country music and there aren’t any significant music venues in the westerjn suburbs, said Dick Grones, principaol at Edina-based Cambridge Commercial Realty. “Live entertainment in the suburbs is reallt hardto find. And that’s a strong ingredieny to stir into the mix for the cente because it brings an additional demographi c that they might notget otherwise.
” I Love This Bar Grill selected West End over the , wherre another celebrity-backed country music bar, Gatlin Brothers Musicf City Grille, used to have a location. Costws may have played a role inthat decision, but I Love This Bar Grill will generate more attentio at West End than it would have at Mall of Grones said. “They can really stande out [at West End] and not have so many othert entertainment venues tocompete with.
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