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Don't let looks deceive you, while the location of the Tulip draws a diverse crowd, the restaurant is clean, and service is friendly without judgment (we've witnessed very kind treatment of some seniors, and others who appear a bit down and out). Essentially, this is a really good "greasy" spoon serving up home-style comfort foods and steaks.
We tend to stick with the daily specials, in particular:
- Mondays or Fridays for their Spaghetti night (a mountain of spaghetti, and their meat sauce is really good, with a small "kick" to add flavour)
- Thursday - always hard to decide between Breaded Pork Chops served with 2 huge scoops of mashed; or a large serving of lasagne with salad on the side.
- Friday - Shepherd's pie (also Spaghetti night)
Recently prices have gone up by $1 to $11.95 but you definitely get a lot of food, and the food is cooked well.
On occasion, we've tried their steaks, but (hopefully this doesn't sound snobby) we prefer some of the higher end steakhouses because the cuts are thicker and tailored more to our fondness of rare steaks. But, the Tulip does offer a dinner special on various cuts of steaks (no rib-eye though), although the dessert choices with the special are limited to rice pudding and apple crumble, which were meh. The fact is, if you have room for dessert, you should be ordering their very decadent chocolate cake, or one of their cream pies.
Anyway, this place is great value and tasty! We were just here last Thursday, and as I've only recently started reviewing on Yelp, I wanted to be include a review of one of Toronto's "institutions".
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