Where's the Meat, Morton's?

For years the cognoscenti's choice for Union Square happy hour snacking has been Morton's, the swellegant Chicago-borne steakhouse at Post and Powell, where the hungry imbiber can enjoy a complimentary and absolutely tender and smoky filet mignon finger sandwich (or two or six or seven) with her $15 martini.

Those freeloading days will draw to a close at the end of the month when the restaurant expands upstairs into the old Disney Store location, taking the bar and dining room with it. (The downstairs will host enhanced banquet facilities.) The good news is that the free sandwiches are being replaced with a brand-new happy hour menu of top-shelf burgers and such, each costing a mere $5. If those enormous 5-7 p.m. cocktails take a cut in salary as well, we guzzlers just might break even.