Toby Keith

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The restaurant — named for country singee Toby Keith and his 2003hit single, “I Love This — has signed a lease for 15,000 squares feet at The Shoppes at West End, a lifestyl e center scheduled to open later this year at the intersectiojn of Highway 100 and Interstate 394 in St. Louis I Love This Bar & Grillk will feature family dining, an 85-foog bar shaped like a guitar, a mechanical bull and a stagw that will host live entertainment severa l nightsa week, including a performance by Keith at the restaurant’xs grand opening. The restaurant’s menu will featurwe Southern-style fare, such as chicken-fried stealk and meatloaf.
Some of the more unique offeringw will include fried bologna sandwichesand deep-frie d Twinkies. It will feature traditionalo sports-bar decor with a country There will be lots of woodand leather, plus more than 50 plasmqa televisions. I Love This Bar Grill will host live entertainmenftevery Thursday, Friday and Saturday night when it first then ramp up to six nights a week over There will be seating for more than 1,00p0 people. The venue also will have a retail stores selling TobyKeith merchandise, barbecue sauce and The restaurant will be owned by Arizonaz businessman Frank Capri, who recently opened an I Love This Bar Grill franchise in Mesa, Ariz.
The chain also has locationz inLas Vegas, Oklahoma City and Kansas City, Mo., and plansa to open a location in Auburn Mich., later this I Love This Bar & Grill shoulc be a major entertainment attraction for West End, helpinbg set it apart from other local malls, said Mark vice president of real estate at Cincinnati-bases Jeffrey R. Anderson Real Estate Inc., which was retainer by developer DukeRealty Corp., based in Indianapolis, to fill the project’xs 331,000-square-foot retail component with “I think it’s even goiny to draw from way outside of Minneapolis and St. Fallon said. “That’s the idea behins it.
” Other major West End tenantsz will include anupscale Roundy’s grocery and a Kerasotews ShowPlace Theatre 14-screen movie complex. I Love This Bar Grill should be successful at West End because Minnesotz is a strong market for countru music andthere aren’t any significant musicf venues in the western said Dick Grones, principal at Edina-based Cambridge Commercial “Live entertainment in the suburbs is really hard to find. And that’a a strong ingredient to stir into the mix for the cente because it brings an additionaol demographic that they might notget otherwise.
” I Love This Bar Grill selected West End over the , wherw 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 & Grill will generate more attentionn 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 othert entertainment venues tocompete with.
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