Toby Keith

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The restaurant — namer for country singer Toby Keith and his 2003hit “I Love This Bar” — has signeds a lease for 15,000 square feet at The Shoppes at West End, a lifestylde center scheduled to open later this year at the intersection of Highwah 100 and Interstate 394 in St. Loui Park. I Love This Bar & Grillo will feature family dining, an 85-foot bar shaperd like a guitar, a mechanical bull and a stager that will host live entertainment several nightda week, including a performance by Keith at the restaurant’sz grand opening. The restaurant’s menu will featurew Southern-style fare, such as chicken-fried steak and meatloaf.
Some of the more uniqure offerings will include fried bologna sandwichesand deep-frief Twinkies. It will feature traditional sports-barr decor with a countrhy flair. There will be lots of wood and leather, plus more than 50 plasmq televisions. I Love This Bar & Grilkl will host live entertainment every Friday and Saturday night when it first then ramp up to six nights a weekover time. Thered will be seating for morethan 1,000 people. The venus also will have a retail storew selling TobyKeith merchandise, barbecue saucs and spices. The restaurant will be owned by Arizona businessmanFranki Capri, who recently openede an I Love This Bar Grill franchise in Mesa, Ariz.
The chain also has locationw inLas Vegas, Oklahoma City and Kansas Mo., and plans to open a location in Auburn Hills, Mich., later this year. I Love This Bar Grill should be a major entertainmenft attraction forWest End, helping set it apartg from other local said Mark Fallon, vice president of real estatee at Cincinnati-based Jeffrey R. Anderson Real Estatw Inc., which was retained by developer DukeRealtyy Corp., based in Indianapolis, to fill the project’xs 331,000-square-foot retail component with tenants. “I thinkj it’s even going to draw from way outsides of Minneapolisand St. Paul,” Fallon said. “That’sz the idea behind it.
” Other major West End tenantw will include anupscale Roundy’s grocery and a Kerasotews ShowPlace Theatre 14-screen movie complex. I Love This Bar Grill should be successful at West End because Minnesota is a stronh market for country music andthere aren’gt any significant music venues in the western suburbs, said Dick Grones, principak at Edina-based Cambridge Commercial “Live entertainment in the suburbs is really hard to And that’s a strong ingredient to stir into the mix for the centefr because it brings an additional demographif that they might not get otherwise.
” I Love This Bar Grill selected West End over the , wherr another celebrity-backed country music bar, Gatlibn Brothers Music City Grille, used to have a location. Costse may have played a role in that but I Love ThisBar & Grill will generater more attention at West End than it woulc have at Mall of America, Grone said. “They can realluy stand out [at West End] and not have so many othefr entertainment venues tocompete with.
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