F: Is for Food Openings Galore!

We are all looking to get healthy and to be successful on our diets, after all bathing suit season is coming soon. A welcome new addition to 18 West 45th St offers just that remedy. Chef Matthew Kenney whose restaurants Heirloom and Blue/Green Organic Juice Cafe is making a comeback at Free Foods NYC. This is organic's answer to fast food. Located in the heart of midtown, the space shelves are lined with organic sodas and wicker barrels are stocked with organic chocolates and chips. Even the containers are made of 100% sustainable, corn-based material. Try the spice-rubbed filet mignon. Juicy slivers of filet wrapped around a sweet caramelized potato and finished with a tangy caper parsley pesto. A daily seasonally rotating selection of dishes, include salmon with shitake mushrooms and pomegranate seeds as well as farro pasta with fiery chicken, pancetta and fennel pollen. Free Foods NYC also features a soup station with a tasty roasted red pepper soup as well as a large roster of paninis, including a BBQ pork panini. For dessert grab a chewy macadamia nut blondie spiked with maple sugar. www.freefoodsnyc.com

Oh Tom look what I found. Terroir is a 24-seat wine bar located at 413 E. 12th St., nr. First Ave. Marco Canora and Paul Grieco, partners at Hearth and Insieme revive some of the Italian snacks they concocted at Craftbar. Sausage stuffed with sage leaves and a signature panino of duck ham with mushrooms and taleggio, veal-ricotta meatballs and turkey wings agrodolce should have you salivating. As for the wine list I guess we will have to visit and taste.

For Cheep eats try the Burger Shoppe at 30 Water St, near Broad St. Comfort food here soars at recession prices. All you wall streeters can take solace in $4 burgers, hot dogs two for $5, and buttermilk batter onion rings. Done up like an old soda fountain, with twelve stools and a Formica counter the first floor is reminiscent of "Happy Days". There are big deals ready and waiting for the cut throat win. The 100-burger “party monster” requires only one hour’s notice and goes for $365. That makes each hamburger $4.65 and that is something to write about and that is a delicious F.A.C.T.