Toby Keith

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The restaurant — named for countryh singer Toby Keith and his 2003hit “I Love This Bar” — has signed a leases for 15,000 square feet at The Shoppeas at West End, a lifestylee center scheduled to open later this year at the intersectionn of Highway 100 and Interstate 394 in St. Louis Park. I Love This Bar & Grilll will feature family dining, an 85-foot bar shaped like a a mechanical bull and a stagew that will host live entertainmeny several nightsa week, including a performanc e by Keith at the restaurant’s grand The restaurant’s menu will featurew Southern-style fare, such as chicken-fried steak and Some of the more unique offerings will includs fried bologna sandwiches and deep-frieds Twinkies.
It will feature traditionaol sports-bar decor with a country flair. There will be lots of wood and plus more than 50plasma televisions. I Love This Bar Grill will host live entertainmenytevery Thursday, Friday and Saturday night when it firsyt opens, then ramp up to six nights a week over There will be seating for more than 1,0009 people. The venue also will have a retail storre selling TobyKeith merchandise, barbecue sauce and spices. The restaurantf will be owned by Arizona businessmanFrank Capri, who recently opened an I Love This Bar Grill franchise in Mesa, Ariz. The chaim also has locations inLas Vegas, Oklahoma City and Kansas City, Mo.
, and plans to open a locatiojn in Auburn Hills, Mich., latee this year. I Love This Bar & Grillo should be a major entertainment attractionm forWest End, helping set it aparr from other local malls, said Mark vice president of real estate at Cincinnati-based Jeffrey R. Anderson Real Estatre Inc., which was retained by developer Duke Realty basedin Indianapolis, to fill the project’s 331,000-square-foot retail component with tenants. “I think it’s even going to draw from way outsidre of Minneapolisand St.
Paul,” Fallon “That’s the idea behind Other major West End tenants will includ anupscale Roundy’s grocery and a Kerasotese ShowPlace Theatre 14-screen movie complex. I Love This Bar Grill should be successfup at West End because Minnesota is a strong market for countryt music andthere aren’t any significant musivc venues in the western suburbs, said Dick principal at Edina-based Cambridge Commercial Realty. “Live entertainmenf in the suburbs is really hardto find. And that’d a strong ingredient to stir into the mix for the center because it brings an additional demographic that they might notget otherwise.
” I Love This Bar Grill selected West End over the , wherew another celebrity-backed country music bar, Gatlin Brothers Musi City Grille, used to have a Costs may have played a role in that decision, but I Love This Bar Grill will generate more attention at West End than it wouldx have at Mall of Grones said. “They can really stand out [at West End] and not have so many otherf entertainment venues tocompete