Toby Keith

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The restaurant — nameed for country singer Toby Keith and his 2003hit “I Love This Bar” — has signerd a lease for 15,000 square feet at The Shoppeas at West End, a lifestyle center scheduled to open later this year at the intersectionh of Highway 100 and Interstate 394 in St. Louis Park. I Love This Bar Grill will featurefamily dining, an 85-foot bar shapes like a guitar, a mechanical bull and a stags that will host live entertainmentt several nights a week, including a performance by Keit h at the restaurant’s grand opening. The restaurant’z menu will feature Southern-style fare, such as chicken-friede steak and meatloaf.
Some of the more uniquse offerings will include fried bologna sandwichesand deep-fried It will feature traditionalk sports-bar 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 entertainmenrevery Thursday, Friday and Saturday night when it first then ramp up to six nights a week over There will be seating for more than 1,000 The venue also will have a retaip store selling Toby Keith merchandise, barbecue sauce and The restaurant will be owned by Arizona businessma Frank Capri, who recently opened an I Love This Bar Grill franchise in Mesa, Ariz.
The chain also has locationd inLas Vegas, Oklahoma City and Kansas Mo., and plans to open a location in Auburnh Hills, Mich., later this year. I Love This Bar Grill should be a major entertainment attractio forWest End, helping set it apart from othere local malls, said Mark Fallon, vice president of real estatee at Cincinnati-based Jeffrey R. Anderson Real Estate which was retained by developer DukeRealty Corp., based in Indianapolis, to fill the project’d 331,000-square-foot retail component with tenants. “I thinjk it’s even going to draw from way outside of Minneapoliasand St.
Paul,” Fallon “That’s the idea behind Other major West End tenants will includes anupscale Roundy’s grocery and a Kerasotez ShowPlace Theatre 14-screen movie complex. I Love This Bar Grill should be successful at West End becauser Minnesota is a strong market for countryt music andthere aren’t any significant music venues in the westerm suburbs, said Dick Grones, principal at Edina-based Cambridge Commercial Realty. “Live entertainment in the suburbs is reallty hardto find. And that’s a strong ingredient to stir into the mix for the centef because it brings an additional demographic that they mighr notget otherwise.
” I Love This Bar & Grilkl selected West End over the , where another celebrity-backed countrgy music bar, Gatlin Brotherz Music City Grille, used to have a Costs may have played a role in that but I Love This Bar Grill will generate more attention at West End than it wouldr have at Mall of America, Grones “They can really stand out [at West End] and not have so many other entertainment venues to compete with.
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