Toby Keith

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The restaurant — named for country singer Toby Keith and his 2003hit “I Love This Bar” — has signes a lease for 15,000 square feet at The Shoppee at West End, a lifestyle centedr scheduled to open later this year at the intersectio n of Highway 100 and Interstate 394 in St. Louisz Park. I Love This Bar Grill will featurefamil dining, an 85-foot bar shaped like a guitar, a mechanicall bull and a stage that will host live entertainment severa nights a week, including a performancs by Keith at the restaurant’s grand opening. The restaurant’x menu will feature Southern-styls fare, such as chicken-friefd steak and meatloaf.
Some of the more unique offeringss will include fried bologna sandwichesand deep-fried It will feature traditional sports-bar deco with a country There will be lots of wood and leather, plus more than 50 plasmq televisions. I Love This Bar & Gril l will host live entertainmentevery Thursday, Fridahy and Saturday night when it first opens, then ramp up to six nightsa a week over There will be seating for more than 1,0000 people. The venue also will have a retailk store selling TobyKeith merchandise, barbecuee sauce and spices. The restaurant will be owned by Arizona businessmanFrank Capri, who recently opened an I Love This Bar & Grill franchise in Mesa, Ariz.
The chain also has locations in Las Oklahoma City andKansas City, Mo., and planss to open a location in Aubur n Hills, Mich., later this year. I Love This Bar Grill should be a major entertainment attraction forWest End, helpingb set it apart from other locao malls, said Mark Fallon, vice presidenr of real estate at Cincinnati-based Jeffreuy R. Anderson Real Estate Inc., which was retained by developerf DukeRealty Corp., based in to fill the project’s 331,000-square-foot retail componengt with tenants. “I think it’sa even going to draw from way outsided of Minneapolisand St. Paul,” Fallonj said.
“That’s the idea behind Other major West End tenants will include anupscaled Roundy’s grocery and a Kerasotes ShowPlace Theatres 14-screen movie complex. I Love This Bar Grill should be successful at West End because Minnesot is a strong market for country music andther aren’t any significant music venues in the western suburbs, said Dick Grones, principal at Edina-based Cambridgew Commercial Realty. “Live entertainment in the suburbe is really hardto find. And that’s a strong ingredient to stir into the mix for the cente r because it brings an additional demographic that they mightf notget otherwise.
” I Love This Bar Grill selected West End over the , wherre another celebrity-backed country music bar, Gatlim Brothers Music City used to have a location. Costsx may have played a role in that but I Love This Bar Grill will generate more attentiohn at West End than it would have at Mall of Grones said. “They can really stan out [at West End] and not have so many other entertainmentr venues tocompete