Dixons Downtown Grill is closing Labor Day -- win a last meal there!

After almost fifteen years, Dixons Downtown Grill will serve its last meal on Labor Day. Want to be there? We're going to give away brunch for two on September 5 to the person who posts the most interesting memory of Dixons in the comments section below. The deadline is 5...

By Patricia Calhoun

August 30, 2011

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After almost fifteen years, Dixons Downtown Grill will serve its last meal on Labor Day. Want to be there? We're going to give away brunch for two on September 5 to the person who posts the most interesting memory of Dixons in the comments section below. The deadline is 5 p.m. Thursday, September 1.

But this weekend, you'll have a chance to make a few last memories at Dixons.

LoDo residents are holding a wake at a Dixons closing party from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, September 3,at the restaurant at 1610 16th Street. And no doubt some of them will return on Sunday for a hangover-curing Bloody Mary.

Dixons has been a LoDo institution since it opened almost fifteen years ago, shortly after Coors Field hosted its first game and this part of downtown started changing...fast. But Dixons was a constant....until it came time for its owners, Lee Goodfriend and David Racine, to sign a new lease on the space. Instead, they decided to close Dixons and focus on their remaining restaurant, Racines, which keeps packing the crowds into a building they own.

If you can't make the wake, Dixons will be pouring through the Labor Day weekend. Stop in and raise a toast to this local institution. And if you want to be there for that final meal, post your memories of Dixons below.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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