DECEMBER 16, 2009 -- The downtown Morton’s the Steakhouse revamped its bar a few years ago. The bar is called Bar 12/21 because the original Morton’s in Chicago opened 31 years ago on December 21 (12/21—get it?). Well, mark your calendars for that date. On Monday, from 5-6 p.m. Morton’s is giving away mini-cheeseburgers for free.

This is the third year the San Diego Morton’s is celebrating its corporate anniversary with a giveaway. Morton’s sales and marketing manager Alicia Pazelt hopes downtown residents and workers will stop in that day for Happy Hour. From 5-6:30 p.m. beers are $4, wine and all “bar bites” are $5 and martinis are $7.

The cheeseburgers are served on dollar rolls with lettuce, tomato and purple onion. Other bar bites include: miniature crab cakes, iceberg wedge bites (with tomato, egg bacon and blue cheese dressing), oysters on the half shell and a “colossal” shrimp salad.

Morton’s is on the ground floor of the Harbor Club condominium. Happy Hour prices go away at 6:30 p.m., but return again at 9 p.m. until closing, seven days a week.