Sao Paulo

After. pricing room service, we made the trip down to the café, we had great service and the food was wonderful! On ended back end, but a peaceful break in the rush of Vegas…

Had breakfast here this morning. The service here was excellent. Great coffee, and orange juice. The huevos rancheros was incredible. My server suggested adding the Portuguese sausage on top. Wow what a good idea. Delicious!!! Ill be back in the morning.

Typical Diner food, typical diner quality. I had to return my first order of soft boiled eggs cause they were cooked wrong. I changed it for scrambled, which looks like it came from a large vat of precook end eggs. Gross. The next day I ordered eggs Benedict,…BY far the grossest I have ever had. Wouldn’t ever eat here again.

Good, Stick-​to-​your-​ribs food
Pros
Solid food
Cons
Questionable service
Obscene wait times during lunch/​dinner hours
A bit over-​priced but hey, that’s Vegas
Good gut-​busting food. The country fried steak and gravy hit the sweet spot of full and sleepy and happy. The gravy was rich and thick. I ordered coffee and they left a hot pot at the table. Nice touch.
There was a customer who left, complaining that one of the waiting staff made a smart-​ass comment. I’m not sure if this is symptomatic of Sao Paolo or the Rio (I’m never staying there again), but my server was very nice.
If I find myself stuck at the Rio again (please, God, no!) I’ll definitely consider going back to Sao Paolo.

You may be familiar with the term food porn. That’s when your little buddies post pictures of restaurant dishes on Facebook. Food at the Sao Paulo café at the Rio definitely falls into the snuff porn category.
None of my friends were able to finish the food, because it was so horrible. We only ate there, because we had a conference meeting in the hotel and no time to look for food outside.

Food was decent and our waitress was very good, but on a 4 person bill they couldn’t handle taking cash for 2 parties and the last 2 parties splitting the bill between 2 credit cards. Been over 72 hours and still waiting for the refunds to come through. Only explanation we were given is if there are too many forms of payment the system locks up. Don’t believe that one, we are the 1^st party of that size to pay that way in Vegas?

For breakfast, this is really the only place you can go at the Rio and they really take advantage of it. Prices are really high. You expect that for a Vegas café but, I don’t think it has ever been this high. I had an omelette while my wife just had an english muffin and one egg. We both had coffee and it came out to be $ 30.
The food and service was good but, I don’t like having limited choices. There is no food court at the Rio where you can get an inexpensive breakfast.
If we come back to the rio, I think we’ll go next door to Gold Coast for a better breakfast value.

I wish I could give this place more stars but– like everyone says its over price, slow service and the food is only ok. You are better off going to the Starbucks in the hotel and getting a muffin.

This restaurant was truly my life savior.
My boyfriend and I arrived at the Rio Hotel about 9am and was told check in was not till 4pm… 0_​_​_​0″ we were so hungry from a our flight from Hawaii and we were really tired and just wanted to relax. We walked around the hotel and all the restaurants we found were CLOSED. We were so disappointed and didn’t know what we were going to do. Finally we found Sao Paulo Café.
Thank goodness this restaurant is open for breakfast. I ordered Eggs Benedict and my boyfriend ordered the gravy all over I believe. I felt like the service here was a bit slow, because it took them awhile to just bring out our waters. Along with that both our meals took a little while to come out (or maybe it just felt like awhile be cause we were so tired and hungry). The food tasted good/​average nothing too special, but for us it hit the spot :)

Decent breakfast, not too bad with the prices, but the wait/​service coudl be better. You don’t have a lot of choices in the Rio and this beats taking a cab elswhere.

I had the New York steak rare with mashed potatoes. It’s the same cut they use for breakfast.
This is a no-​frills place, so don’t expect too much. Everything was edible, service was friendly but nothing extraordinary.
It’s one of the few places that was open in the Rio after the Penn and Teller show (very good btw), but by the end of the meal it was apparent that we should have searched more to find a late-​night dinner.

This place is your typical average hotel/​casino coffee shop. Nothing spectacular and overpriced. The hash brown I ordered was pretty burnt and the bacon was way too chewy. My daughter ordered a plain bagel with cream cheese which was $ 4.00, and my friend got the yogurt parait which was $ 8.00, yikes!
The service was great and we didn’t have to wait for a seat. If you sign up for Total Rewards, you get discounted prices. It’s free and easy to join, just look for the booth in the casino.

the place for our traditional Breakfast and Keno!
Been coming here for YEARS! GOOD SERVICE, GOOD COFFEE.
btw, Having a Diamond card has its benefits!

Gross! The food was like bad school cafeteria food. Have american grille come in and make the food!

Meh. Again. Much like the rest of the Rio… Not terrible food. Not the best. Overpriced. Decent service.
…and that’s about it.

Expensive, but they give you lots of free time to enjoy the meal and the «day after» Las Vegas evening chatter.

NOTES:
1. Overpriced
2. Serves breakfast foods only
3. Fast service — when it’s not busy
4. Food is alright
5. Service is standard
Don’t get the HEALTHY START. I got that with Spinach and Smoked Salmon… and THEY COOKED THE SALMON! It’s already smoked… why cook it so more… call it Fried Salmon then! The omelet did not have ANY flavor. The brand muffin that came with it was good.
Ambiance: It was there since I had a convention there. So it felt like a Denny’s.
The Café Mocha was good.
Overall… don’t go here.

It was a decent breakfast here, I didn’t have any complaints with my blueberry pancakes. They put tons of blueberries in the batter which I dig! I hate it when you go somewhere and they put like 6 blueberries in your pancake. Don’t have to worry about that here thou. The portions were big, not massive and overwhelming, but you get a full plate of food for sure.
The server was very attentive and kept our waters and coffee mugs filled. The food was brought out pretty quickly too. The price was a tad bit high, but it’s pretty much what one should expect from a breakfast joint inside a casino.

Breakfast is freaking expensive. Something you can do at home will cost you $ 14 here. That’s what happened to me when I ordered the regular ol’ eggs, sausage patty & potatoes breakfast. Sure they give you a lot of food for breakfast, but it better be considering what they’re charging.
The service was also pretty damn slow. The waitress was nice and all, but she comes across somewhat fake and insincere. Too bad our Buffet of Buffets pass ended already so we had to go someplace close for breakfast since we were staying at the Rio.

This place really isn’t that bad. As long as you don’t come here with high expectations, you can’t be disappointed.
4 of us came here for «breakfast» after a night of… well, let’s not go there. But this is the sort of place you go to when you need food that’ll soak up the residual alcohol from the night before or morning of.
I ordered the chicken fried steak, and as Dave S. commented, they didn’t plate it like it normally is. It came as chicken fried steak, topped with cheese scrambled eggs, biscuits & gravy on the side. No gravy on the chicken fried steak?! What the??? So while that was a little off-​putting, the food itself was actually quite tasty. The chicken fried steak was cooked perfectly, a little crispy on the outside. The gravy was good, thick & tasty with bits of bacon. I tried to finish it because it was sooo yummy, but in the end I took it to go and noshed on it the next day before our early morning flight back home (sans silverware! haha).
The rest of my table enjoyed their meals: waffle, 2 egg breakfast, and a burrito/​wrap served with chipotle salsa. Portions were huge, service was a tad slow, prices were reasonable, and water — thankfully — was plentiful.