Mahna Mahna and Bubble Gum Steak at the wilted Tulip...

Oye! Service, service, service could make any horrifically awful food ten times better as pity for the poor earnest shmucks serving the shlop; this always translates in a decent tip, to say the least. Thus, the equation: poor service + shlop ultimately results in = awful dining experience. Mahna Mahna (names changed for anonymity and an excuse to embed this video ) was paying for parking, a lesson learned from brunch last week and a surprise $60 parking ticket...eep! but I digress... so I ventured in to The Tulip on Coxwell Av and Queen St. E. farely comfortable as a "rough and tumble" dive (from http://www.urbanspoon.ca/) familiar from 2 other uneventful visits. 'Twas busy in ye olde restaurant, so I waited patiently to be seated, I asked for a booth and was told to sit even without the table being cleared from the previous diners who had left. Mahna Mahna arrived and we scoured the menu for their famous Steak and Eggs breakfast ($10) and I settled for the Spanish Omelette($9) marinara sauce and sauteed vegetables...how can you go wrong, you ask.... After 15 min of waiting for the bloody table to be cleared, I piped up and asked the server who had seated me to please clear the table and we are ready with our orders, clearly this was not allowed and the gentlemen waiter (who looked about 13 and was matched with the manners of a tween) greeted us coldly with, "If you had waited to be seated like we told you, we would have cleared the table for you, what do you want..." EXCUSE ME, IF YOU WANT PEOPLE TO COME BACK TO YOUR ESTABLISHMENT THERE'S SUCH A THING CALLED, UM, RESPECT!!!! Double ugh! The steak was chewy, home fries boiled and then crisped and the Spanish Omelette reminded me of Campbell's vegetable soup with an overhelping of celery?! enveloped in milk-diluted eggs. Please, oh please, if you can go somewhere else, please do! Next!