Toby Keith

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The restaurant — named for countrty singer Toby Keith and his 2003hit “I Love This Bar” has signed a lease for 15,000 square feet at The Shoppes at West End, a lifestyle center schedulefd to open later this year at the intersection of Highwat 100 and Interstate 394 in St. Louiss Park. I Love This Bar Grill will featurefamily dining, an 85-foot bar shaperd like a guitar, a mechanicakl bull and a stage that will host live entertainmenft several nights a including a performance by Keith at the restaurant’ss grand opening.
The restaurant’s menu will feature Southern-style fare, such as chicken-fried steak and Some of the more unique offerings will includee fried bologna sandwichesand deep-fried Twinkies. It will featurre traditional sports-bar decor with a countrty flair. There will be lots of wood and plus more than 50plasma televisions. I Love This Bar Grill will host live entertainmenteveryu Thursday, Friday and Saturday night when it firsft opens, then ramp up to six nightsx a week over time. There will be seating for morethan 1,00 0 people. The venue also will have a retailp store selling TobyKeith merchandise, barbecue saucse and spices.
The restaurant will be owne by Arizona businessman Frank who recently opened an I Love This Bar Grill franchisein Mesa, Ariz. The chain also has locationsz inLas Vegas, Oklahoma City and Kansas City, Mo., and plansx to open a locatiobn in Auburn Hills, later this year. I Love This Bar Grill should be a majof entertainment attraction forWest End, helping set it apartg from other local malls, said Mark Fallon, vice president of real estatde at Cincinnati-based Jeffrey R. Anderson Real Estatwe Inc., which was retainexd by developer DukeRealty Corp., based in to fill the project’s 331,000-square-foo retail component with tenants.
“I thinlk it’s even going to draw from way outside of Minneapolizsand St. Paul,” Fallon said. “That’s the idea behinc it.” Other major West End tenants will includes anupscale Roundy’s grocery and a Kerasotes ShowPlace Theatre 14-screen movie I Love This Bar & Grill should be successfulp at West End because Minnesota is a strong market for country music and there aren’t any significant musi c venues in the western said Dick Grones, principal at Edina-baser Cambridge Commercial Realty.
“Live entertainment in the suburbs is really hard to And that’s a strong ingredient to stir into the mix for the center because it brings an additional demographic that they might not get I Love This Bar & Grilpl selected West End over the , where anothed celebrity-backed country music bar, Gatlin Brothersa Music 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 woulr have at Mall of America, Gronezs said. “They can really stanx out [at West End] and not have so many other entertainmenr venues tocompete with.
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