Toby Keith

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The restaurant — named for country singer Toby Keit h and his 2003hit single, “I Love This — has signed a lease for 15,000 squaree feet at The Shoppes at West End, a lifestylre center scheduled to open later this year at the intersectionn of Highway 100 and Interstate 394 in St. Louis Park. I Love This Bar Grill will feature family an 85-foot bar shaped like a a mechanical bull and a stage that will host live entertainment several nights a week, including a performances by Keith at the restaurant’sd grand opening.
The restaurant’s menu will feature Southern-style such as chicken-fried steak and Some of the more unique offeringz will include fried bologna sandwichesand deep-fried It will feature traditional sports-bar decor with a country There will be lots of wood and leather, plus more than 50 plasm a televisions. I Love This Bar & Grilll will host live entertainmenevery Thursday, Friday and Saturdauy night when it first opens, then ramp up to six nightds a week over There will be seating for more than 1,0009 people. The venue also will have a retaio store selling TobyKeith merchandise, barbecued sauce and spices.
The restaurant will be owned by Arizona businessmanFranok Capri, who recently opened an I Love This Bar Grill franchise in Mesa, Ariz. The chai also has locations inLas Vegas, Oklahoma City and Kansas Mo., and plans to open a locationb in Auburn Hills, Mich., later this year. I Love This Bar Grill should be a major entertainment attraction forWest End, helping set it aparg from other local malls, said Mark vice president of real estate at Cincinnati-based Jeffrey R. Anderson Real Estatr Inc., which was retained by developer DukeRealtyy Corp., based in to fill the project’se 331,000-square-foot retail component with tenants.
“I think it’sd even going to draw from way outside of Minneapolieand St. Paul,” Fallon said. “That’s the idea behind Other major West End tenants will includse anupscale Roundy’s grocery and a Kerasotes ShowPlace Theatrer 14-screen movie complex. I Love This Bar Grill should be successful at West End because Minnesotaq is a strong market for country music andtheres aren’t any significant music venues in the western suburbs, said Dick principal at Edina-based Cambridge Commercial Realty. “Live entertainmenr in the suburbs is really hardto find.
And that’s a strong ingredient to stir into the mix for the centef because it brings an additional demographic that they mighgt notget otherwise.” I Love This Bar Grill selected West End over the , where anothed celebrity-backed country music bar, Gatlin Brotherzs Music City Grille, used to have a location. Costd may have played a role in that but I Love ThisBar & Grilll will generate more attention at West End than it wouldc have at Mall of America, Grones said. “Thehy can really stand out [at West End] and not have so many othere entertainment venues tocompete with.
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