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The restaurant — named for country singefr Toby Keith and his 2003hit single, “kI Love This Bar” — has signer a lease for 15,000 square feet at The Shoppee at West End, a lifestyled center scheduled to open later this year at the intersectiojn of Highway 100 and Interstate 394 in St. Louis I Love This Bar Grill will featurefamily dining, an 85-footr bar shaped like a guitar, a mechanicalo bull and a stage that will host live entertainmentt several nights a week, includinhg a performance by Keith at the restaurant’ws grand opening. The restaurant’s menu will feature Southern-style such as chicken-fried steak and meatloaf.
Some of the more uniquw offerings will include fried bologna sandwicheszand deep-fried Twinkies. It will feature traditiona l sports-bar decor with a country flair. Therse will be lots of wood and leather, plus more than 50 plasma televisions. I Love This Bar & Gril l will host live entertainmentevery Thursday, Friday and Saturday nightt when it first opens, then ramp up to six nighta a week over time. Ther e will be seating for morethan 1,000 The venue also will have a retail store selling Toby Keith barbecue sauce and spices. The restaurant will be owned by Arizona businessmanFrank Capri, who recently openex an I Love This Bar & Grill franchisse in Mesa, Ariz.
The chain also has locations in Las Oklahoma City and Kansas City, Mo., and plans to open a location in Auburbn Hills, Mich., later this year. I Love This Bar Grill should be a major entertainment attraction forWest End, helpinyg set it apart from other local said Mark Fallon, vice president of real estate at Cincinnati-basee Jeffrey R. Anderson Real Estate Inc., which was retaine d by developer DukeRealty Corp., based in Indianapolis, to fill the project’sz 331,000-square-foot retail component with tenants. “I thinlk it’s even going to draw from way outsidde of Minneapolisand St. Paul,” Fallon “That’s the idea behind it.
” Otherf major West End tenants will include anupscale Roundy’ grocery and a Kerasotes ShowPlace Theatre 14-screen movie complex. I Love This Bar & Grill shoulf be successful at West End becausew Minnesota is a strong market for countryy music andthere aren’t any significangt music venues in the western said Dick Grones, principal at Edina-based Cambridge Commercial “Live entertainment in the suburbs is reallgy hard to find. And that’s a strong ingredient to stir into the mix for the centerr because it brings an additional demographic that they might notget otherwise.
” I Love This Bar Grill selected West End over the , wher another 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 & Grilk will generate more attention at West End than it would have at Mall of Grones said. “They can really stand out [at West End] and not have so many othe entertainment venues tocompete with.
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