It's been 1 year, 7 months, and 29 days since Bender's took their famed deep fried seitan off their menu.  We mourned its loss, went to Weird Fish for a seitan fixed, we even cooked up a batch at home, but none of that was ever the same as putting back 12 bucks worth of wheat gluten on a table made out of fake driver's licenses while being surrounded by the signage of deceased San Francisco businesses.  Dark times.

Well, worry no more because Bender's is getting the band back together.  It's got a new name, and there's even a BBQ spin-off, but it's still the same seitan we've all come to know and love covered in Frank's RedHot.

And as if Bender's needed anything else to get me in the door, they just got a new pinball machine and recently started selling 16s of King Cobra—The Binge Drinker's Malt Liquor—for three bucks.