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Sao Paulo
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Category: Restaurants [Edit]
700 W. Flamingo RoadRio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, NV 89136
(702) 777-7923
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
5 reviews for Sao Paulo
Ugh, underwhelming food served to a captive audience.
I thought eating here would spare me the dregs of convention luncheon fare. What I got was convention luncheon fare, except I had to pay for it.
You probably cannot go wrong with the standard "burgers 'n shit," but steer well clear of the spaghetti and meatballs and the fruit plate. Don't even *look* at the pseudo-chinese food list on the back side of the menu. $11 for congee?? Come on.
Now, I didn't order the spag and meatballs, that was a business partner. He's a young guy and sometimes young guys aren't too picky as long as they are full. But even he told me afterwards the food was really bad.
I got the fruit plate and it was exactly like convention fruit plates. Crunchy cantaloupe, browning bananas, tasteless strawberries. But there was no other place to go in the time we had to eat.
Finally, business partner thought the staff working there seemed a little lackluster. I said their eyes showed soul-crushing disappointment in the neverending tedium of serving cafeteria food as a profession to desperate gamblers and exhausted convention-goers. Maybe that is the same as lackluster, but I try to be creative.
Oh, and my water glass and silverware smelled like eggs.
We stopped here for a quick bite to eat before seeing Penn & Teller. We had to pick up our tickets for the show an hour in advance, but didn't have time to eat dinner. This place is located pretty much next to the theatre, so we decided to give it a whirl. The WSOP was going on at the Rio, so alot of the patrons were guys eating along. There was about a 10 minute to be seated, but it went by pretty quick. I ordered a panini and my boyfriend got a fried shrimp dish, both dishes came out pretty good and surprisingly quick. The menu was limited due to the WSOP, but the prices were reasonable for what you get. There was another line to pay upon exiting, but it's Vegas, there seems to be lines everywhere. Overall, not a bad place if your looking for a quick bite.
TERRIBLE! TERRIBLE! TERRIBLE!
The food wasn't good and the service just SUCKED ASS. I only had an hour to eat during an all-day seminar at the neighboring convention center, and didn't even get my food until the 50 minute mark, at which point I had to ask for a to-go box and leave my poor husband alone with the check.
The staff was just for shit...slow, understaffed, not friendly, and I think barely spoke English as they got my drink order wrong. I know I was not the only person who had a terrible experience that day or during the ensuing conference that week. I'll never eat there again - I'd rather grab a snack from the nearby Starbucks than waste my time trying to get a meal there.
This is a small cafe type restaurant in the Rio Hotel. The food was ok, nothing to write home about, but it wasn't too expensive, and service was pretty quick, and they actually had a veg option. Can you believe Tofu was on the menu. It was not great, served with lots of baby bok choy, but it was vegetarian. Not easy to find in Vegas. I went back the next morning (I was there for a meeting), and had breakfast. Service was fast and courteous, and breakfast was breakfast.
Sao Paulo is a glorified coffee shop. It's the only place in the Rio serving breakfast for less than the buffet price. I had the chicken fried steak. The chef at Sao Paulo is an idiot. The menu describes the plate as Chicken Fried Steak, Cheese Scrambled Eggs and Biscuit and Gravy. The waitress asks if you want the cheese scrambled eggs or your eggs any other way, but I choose to go with the scramble to see how it looks. When the plate showed up, I realized the chef is an idiot. The steak had the scrambled eggs on top of it. The biscuit and gravy was next to the steak. No gravy on the steak. Darn.... I just killed Paula Dean with that statement. The first thing I did was push off the eggs and ask the waitress for a cup of gravy to make this plate right. After I got the plate done correctly, the steak was pretty good for a deep fried style. It was crunchy and the flavor of the batter was good. The steak was tenderized perfectly. I prefer pan fried, but for deep fried, this was one was better than average. The biscuit was small, but the gravy was good sausage country gravy. The cheese scramble was okay. I told the manager the chef is an idiot and should smother the steak with gravy in the future and put the eggs on the side. Not on top of the steak. I don't know if the manager will tell that to the chef. Next year, I'll see if they change it.
