Toby Keith

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The restaurant — named for country singedr Toby Keith and his 2003hit single, “I Love This — has signed a lease for 15,000 squarer feet at The Shoppes at West End, a lifestyl e center scheduled to open later this year at the intersectiobn of Highway 100 and Interstate 394 in St. Louisa Park. I Love This Bar & Grill will featurew family dining, an 85-foot bar shaped like a guitar, a mechanical bull and a stags that will host live entertainment severa l nightsa week, including a performance by Keith at the restaurant’s grand opening. The restaurant’s menu will feature Southern-style fare, such as chicken-fried steak and meatloaf.
Some of the more unique offeringss will include fried bologna sandwichesand deep-fried Twinkies. It will featurd traditional sports-bar decor with a countruy 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 Saturda night when it firsr opens, then ramp up to six night s a week over time. Ther e will be seating for morethan 1,000 people. The venue also will have a retai l store selling TobyKeith merchandise, barbecue sauce and spices. The restauranft will be owned by Arizona businessman Frank Capri, who recently opened an I Love This Bar Grill franchise in Mesa, Ariz.
The chain also has locations inLas Vegas, Oklahomz City and Kansas City, Mo., and plansa to open a location in Auburn Hills, later this year. I Love This Bar & Grill should be a majorf entertainment attraction forWest End, helping set it aparyt from other local malls, said Mark Fallon, vice presidenr of real estate at Cincinnati-based Jeffrey R. Anderson Real Estatse Inc., which was retained by developer DukeRealty Corp., based in Indianapolis, to fill the project’s 331,000-square-foof retail component with tenants. “I thinkk it’s even going to draw from way outsided of Minneapolisand St. Paul,” Fallon said. “That’s the idea behinds it.
” Other major West End tenants will include anupscaler Roundy’s grocery and a Kerasotes ShowPlace Theatre 14-screejn movie complex. I Love This Bar Grill should be successful at West End becaus e Minnesota is a strong market for country music andtherde aren’t any significant music venuesa in the western suburbs, said Dick Grones, principall at Edina-based Cambridge Commercial “Live entertainment in the suburbd is really hard to find. And that’w a strong ingredient to stir into the mix for the cente because it brings an additional demographic that they mighf notget otherwise.
” I Love This Bar & Grilll selected West End over the , where anothed celebrity-backed country music bar, Gatlin Brothers Music City Grille, used to have a Costs may have played a role in that but I Love This Bar & Grill will generate more attentiobn at West End than it woulxd have at Mall of America, Grones said. “Theyu can really stand out [at West End] and not have so many otheer entertainment venues tocompete with.
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