I had noticed the door to the defunct Palace Family Steak House wide open a few weeks back, with three guys inside cleaning out two years worth of dust and grime.  Whle I wasn't able to swing in to figure out what was going on at the time, Todd from Bernalwood was able to poke his head around and snap these pics:

Though from the outside it looks pretty much the same as it has since it closed in 2009, there’s lots happening behind the sheets of brown paper that cover the windows of the venerable Palace Steak House at the corner of Mission and Cesar Chavez. Four decades worth of accumulated kitch and grunge have been removed, and based on these exclusive photographs captured by the Bernalwood Spybot, it seems the interior of the Palace Steak House has been thoroughly remodeled to look retro-shabby-chic.

Unfortunately, no one has been able to contact the owners to figure out what exactly is going on (Is it still a steak house? Will it keep the same menu? Will there be hella vegan options?), but the exterior signage suggests they are keeping the “Palace Family Steak House” name and could be open as soon as next week.

Read on to see additional pics and give the restaurant's theme song (that's right) a listen.