What is Pronto by Giada?
Pronto by Giada is the small, fast half of Giada De Laurentiis’s two-restaurant deal at Caesars Republic Scottsdale, the 11-story, 265-room hotel at 4747 N Goldwater Boulevard that opened on March 6, 2024 across the street from Scottsdale Fashion Square. It sits on the hotel’s first floor, on the northeast corner toward Goldwater and Highland, a few steps from Luna by Giada, the full-service Italian dinner room, and it opened the same day.
The idea is the one she tested in Las Vegas. Pronto by Giada debuted at Caesars Palace in 2020 as a counter-service café for people who wanted her California-Italian food without a dinner reservation; the Scottsdale version is, by the opening coverage in Mouth by Southwest, smaller and with a shorter menu, which in practice means a breakfast-and-lunch café that closes at 1 p.m. The hotel calls it “a casual daytime café serving Italian-inspired breakfast, lunch, pastries, and coffee,” and that is accurate.
Breakfast from 6 to 11 is the core: a ham cornetti with provolone on a croissant ($12), a sausage-and-egg sandwich on brioche ($12), a breakfast wrap ($17), a frittata of hash browns, bacon and Tuscan kale ($20), Pronto eggs Benedict with cotto ham and Prosecco hollandaise ($25), avocado toast ($10), pancakes or a waffle with honey mascarpone cream ($15), a yogurt parfait, steel-cut oatmeal and bagels. Lunch from 11 to 1 is paninis ($19, with chips and a drink), Giada’s Cobb salad ($18) and a romaine salad ($11). The case holds cornetti, Danish, lemon and chocolate chip cookies, tiramisu and gelato; the counter pulls espresso, nitro cold brew and hot chocolate, blends smoothies and pours mimosas and Bloody Marys for the hotel’s weekend.
It is for hotel guests who want breakfast before the pool deck opens, for Fashion Square’s early shift, and for anyone in Old Town who needs a real cappuccino at six in the morning, which is rarer than it should be. Our verdict: a competent hotel café with a famous name and a good Benedict, worth knowing for the hours more than the food.
Using Pronto well
Timing. The café opens at 6 a.m. every day, which is its real competitive advantage; most of the coffee shops in our best coffee shops in Scottsdale guide open at 7 or later, and little else on the Goldwater side of Fashion Square does breakfast that early. Breakfast runs to 11, lunch from 11 to 1, and the hotel’s page gives 1 p.m. as the close while some listings say 2; treat 1 as the deadline, and expect the kitchen to be winding down by 12:30. There is no reservation and no host; order at the counter, take a number, sit inside or carry it out.
Order the Benedict or the cornetti. The two ends of the menu are the strong ones. The Pronto eggs Benedict ($25) with cotto ham and a Prosecco hollandaise on a fresh English muffin is the plate that reads like Giada and eats like a proper hotel breakfast. The ham cornetti ($12) is the quick version: ham and provolone in a croissant with lemon-smashed potatoes on the side. The American breakfast ($20) is two eggs any style with potatoes, bacon or sausage and toast, for people who did not come for Italian. The lemon blueberry and Nutella strawberry pancakes ($18 full stack, $15 short) are the house flourish, and the one early Tripadvisor reviewer who ordered them found them gummy and overpriced, which matches our read of a pancake made in a hotel pastry kitchen at 6 a.m. Skip them for the frittata.
Lunch is paninis. The chicken Parmesan panini on baguette, the turkey, bacon and avocado on ciabatta with honey mustard, and the caprese with tomato, mozzarella and arugula are each $19 and come with potato chips and a 12-ounce drink, which makes them the fairest value on the board. Giada’s Cobb ($18) adds chickpeas and Gorgonzola chive dressing to the usual chicken, bacon and egg. For anything bigger, Luna’s bar opens at 3 next door.
Coffee and the case. Drip coffee is $4, Americano $4, latte and cappuccino $7, nitro cold brew $7, with oat, soy and almond milk for a dollar. The pastry case is where the Italian promise is kept: cornetti, a cherry mascarpone Danish, lemon cookies, tiramisu, and gelato and sorbetti at two scoops for $7. Smoothies are $12. On weekends the mimosas and Bloody Marys ($15) are the hotel’s pre-pool ritual.
Getting there. The hotel’s garage is off Goldwater; the Fashion Square garages across the street are free and a two-minute walk, and the hotel connects to the mall’s luxury wing by a walkway. The café’s phone is (480) 914-6828. If you are staying upstairs, this is the breakfast the hotel assumes you will eat; if you are not, it is a reasonable stop before the mall opens.
The café in the casino company’s first hotel without a casino
Caesars Republic Scottsdale was a strategy experiment: could the brand that means slot machines sell rooms without them? Caesars Entertainment announced the project in 2019 with the developer HCW, picked a parcel beside Scottsdale Fashion Square at Goldwater and Highland, and signed the one chef whose name was already on a Caesars marquee. Giada De Laurentiis already had Giada at The Cromwell in Las Vegas and, in 2020, opened Pronto by Giada at Caesars Palace, a fast-casual counter that proved her brand worked at $15 as well as at $60. HCW announced two restaurants for Scottsdale, a full-service Luna and a casual Pronto, and she said she was “excited to open this new concept in Scottsdale, a great market.” The target was 2021. The pandemic moved it, and the hotel finally held its grand opening on February 29, 2024, opening to the public on March 6 with all three of her rooms, Luna, Luna Bar and Pronto, on the first floor.
Luna took the attention. Phoenix New Times’ 2025 guide to celebrity-chef restaurants recorded that it became one of the Valley’s hottest reservations almost immediately, booked two weeks out by the hotel’s own account, with its lemon spaghetti and a 290-seat room around a glass kitchen. Pronto was mentioned in the same breath as “the casual café,” which is the role it was given: feed the hotel’s 265 rooms in the morning, give Fashion Square a branded coffee stop, and keep the Giada name visible from 6 a.m. until Luna Bar opens.
The 2020s hotel-restaurant formula in Scottsdale is a celebrity dinner room plus a casual daytime outlet under the same name, and Caesars Republic built the cleanest example in town. The Grand Hyatt did it with Richard Blais’s La Zozzona over Mesa Centrale; the Kimpton Miralina did it with Wes Avila’s Hecho Libre over Cafe Libre. Pronto is that second line on the deal sheet. Its hours, 6 to 1, tell you it is scaled for guests rather than the neighborhood, and the hotel’s seventh floor, where Wolf by Vanderpump opened in December 2025, is where the locals go.
The record is thin on the café itself. There is no Valley review of Pronto on its own; the press coverage is the hotel’s opening and the Giada announcement, the opening-day walk-through in Mouth by Southwest, and a handful of diner reviews that average middling, with praise for the staff and the coffee and complaints about price. Nobody has written down how many seats it has, who runs the counter, or whether the Las Vegas menu’s pizzas and lobster roll were ever on the Scottsdale board; the hotel’s page still lists a lobster roll and a grilled cheese that the current printed menu does not.
Honest assessment: Pronto by Giada is a well-located hotel café with a famous name, a good eggs Benedict, decent espresso and prices that only make sense if you are already paying for a room upstairs. It is not a destination, and it does not claim to be. Its value to the rest of us is the 6 a.m. opening and the Fashion Square address, which make it the earliest sit-down breakfast between Goldwater Boulevard and Camelback. Eat the cornetti, drink the cappuccino, and book Luna for the real meal.