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.
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