What is Luna by Giada?
If you searched “Giada Scottsdale,” this is the answer: Luna by Giada is Giada De Laurentiis’s restaurant in Scottsdale, her only full-service restaurant in Arizona. It’s on the ground floor of Caesars Republic Scottsdale, the 11-story hotel at Goldwater Boulevard and Highland Avenue that opened in March 2024 as the first Caesars-branded hotel in the country without a casino. Across the street is Scottsdale Fashion Square, and across Goldwater is the Mastro family’s Ocean 44.
The cooking is De Laurentiis’s Italian, scaled up for a hotel dining room: a raw bar, focaccia and crudo, pizzas, a handmade-pasta list and a few steaks. The dish to order is the one the menu calls her signature, lemon spaghetti. The bar next door, Luna Bar, has its own hours and a daily happy hour, and Pronto by Giada, her café, handles breakfast and lunch.
It’s a polished, loud, glossy room aimed at a night out more than at an Italian pilgrimage, and it’s priced accordingly. If you want her food at a better price, the bar at happy hour is the move.
Eating at Luna
Start with the bread and something raw. The Sicilian focaccia ($15 as of October 2026) and the ahi tuna crudo are the opening moves; the raw bar runs to oysters, shrimp cocktail and caviar service if somebody is celebrating.
Order her pasta. The Signature Lemon Spaghetti ($39) is the plate to build the table around: bright, simple and the dish with her name most firmly on it. The baked crab rigatoni ($48) is the richer second pasta for a shared table. Mains run to Mediterranean branzino and Linz Heritage steaks, with a bistecca alla Fiorentina for two; they’re competent, but this is a pasta restaurant first.
Use the bar. Luna Bar opens at 3 every day. Happy hour runs 3 to 5 with $15 pizzette, lobster arancini and bacon-wrapped dates, and there’s a reverse happy hour from 9 to 10. “Luna Uncorked” takes half off select wines Friday through Sunday. On Friday and Saturday evenings the hotel books live music in the lobby from 5:30 to 8:30.
Mornings are Pronto’s. Pronto by Giada serves breakfast from 6 to 11 and lunch until 1: avocado toast, eggs Benedict, a Cobb salad and a chicken parm panini. It’s the cheapest way to eat her name in Scottsdale.
The hotel has other rooms: Wolf by Vanderpump, a bar and restaurant from Lisa Vanderpump, and the rooftop pool. Luna is the one with a chef’s name on it. For a different kind of celebrity-chef Italian, drive north to The Americano, the steakhouse Scott Conant ran until 2024.
Giada De Laurentiis and how she got to Goldwater Boulevard
Giada De Laurentiis was born Giada Pamela De Benedetti in Rome on August 22, 1970, the daughter of actress Veronica De Laurentiis and granddaughter of the film producer Dino De Laurentiis. After her parents divorced she grew up in Southern California, and by her own restaurant’s account she learned to cook in the kitchen of her grandfather’s restaurant. She trained at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris and earned a degree in social anthropology from UCLA in 1996.
Food Network made her famous. Everyday Italian premiered on April 5, 2003, and a run of shows followed, including Giada at Home and Giada Entertains; she won a Daytime Emmy as Outstanding Lifestyle Host in 2008 and, in 2020, Emmys for culinary host and culinary series. She has written nine cookbooks that made the New York Times bestseller list, launched the Giadzy food and travel shop in 2017, and in 2023 signed a multi-year deal with Amazon Studios.
Her restaurant career is short and closely tied to Caesars. Giada, her first restaurant, opened at The Cromwell in Las Vegas in 2014, and Pronto by Giada followed at Caesars Palace in 2018. Luna and the Scottsdale Pronto are, by the restaurant’s own count, her third and fourth.
Caesars Republic Scottsdale was the logical next step. Caesars Entertainment wanted to prove its name could sell hotel rooms without a gaming floor, and it gave the experiment one of its best-known Las Vegas names as the headline restaurant. The hotel held its grand opening on February 29, 2024 and opened to the public on March 6, with 265 rooms, two pools and three restaurants. Operated as part of Hilton’s portfolio, it put Luna at the center of the 2020s celebrity-chef cluster around Fashion Square, where national names have opened one after another.
The usual question about celebrity restaurants applies, and the honest answer is the usual one. The menu and the brand are hers; the cooking on a Tuesday is the kitchen team’s. Come for her lemon spaghetti and the room, not for a sighting, and you won’t be disappointed.