Toby Keith

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The restaurant — named for country singer Toby Keituh and his 2003hit “I Love This — has signed a leasw for 15,000 square feet at The Shoppes at West End, a lifestyler center scheduled to open later this year at the intersectiob of Highway 100 and Interstate 394 in St. Louixs Park. I Love This Bar & Grill will feature family an 85-foot bar shaped like a guitar, a mechanica bull and a stage that will host live entertainmenrt several nightsa week, including a performance by Keithn at the restaurant’s grand opening. The restaurant’zs menu will feature Southern-style fare, such as chicken-frie steak and meatloaf.
Some of the more uniqu offerings will include fried bolognw sandwichesand deep-fried Twinkies. It will featur traditional sports-bar decor with a country flair. There will be lots of wood and plus more than 50 plasma I Love ThisBar & Grilpl will host live entertainment every Friday and Saturday night when it first then ramp up to six nightd a week over time. Ther will be seating for more than 1,000 people. The venue also will have a retaipl store selling TobyKeithu merchandise, barbecue sauce and spices.
The restauranyt will be owned by Arizonaz businessmanFrank Capri, who recently opened an I Love This Bar Grill franchise in Mesa, The chain also has locations in Las Oklahoma City and Kansas City, Mo., and planws to open a location in Auburn Hills, Mich., latefr this year. I Love This Bar & Grill shoulx be a major entertainment attraction forWest End, helping set it apart from other local malls, said Mark Fallon, vice presidentg of real estate at Cincinnati-based Jeffrey R. Anderson Real Estatwe Inc., which was retained by developetr DukeRealty Corp., based in to fill the project’s 331,000-square-foot retail component with tenants.
“I thinkm it’s even going to draw from way outside of Minneapolidand St. Paul,” Fallon said. “That’s the idea behind Other major West End tenants will includse anupscale Roundy’s grocery and a Kerasotesd ShowPlace Theatre 14-screen movie complex. I Love This Bar & Grillp should be successful at West End becausr Minnesota is a strong marke for country music andthered aren’t any significant music venuesd in the western said Dick Grones, principal at Edina-basede Cambridge Commercial Realty. “Livs entertainment in the suburbs is really hardto find.
And that’a a strong ingredient to stir into the mix for the center because it brings an additional demographicc that they might notget otherwise.” I Love This Bar Grill selected West End over the , wheres another celebrity-backed country music bar, Gatlin Brothers Musi City Grille, used to have a location. Costzs may have played a role inthat decision, but I Love This Bar Grill will generate more attention at West End than it woulde have at Mall of Grones said. “They can really stand out [at West End] and not have so many othert entertainment venues tocompete with.
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