Food Network Star Opening Restaurant At Horseshoe

BALTIMORE, MD — Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis is opening a restaurant in Baltimore. The Horseshoe Casino released a video announcement on Friday with the big news.

"It will open in 2018, and I can't wait," Laurentiis said in the video. When her restaurant in Baltimore opens, the eatery will mark her first restaurant venture on the East Coast.

De Laurentiis has a restaurant with ties to another casino; GIADA is located inside The Cromwell, a hotel by Caesars Palace. Her restaurant opened there in 2014 and features upscale Italian dining. She reportedly plans to open a second restaurant inside Caesars Palace that is more casual in 2018.

Her restaurant in Baltimore will reportedly be on the second floor of the Horseshoe Casino, which also under Ceasars Entertainment. Her plan for the restaurant in Baltimore is to transform the Johnny Sanchez taqueria, which shuttered in September, into a "hip and casual" Italian eatery with pasta dishes, the Baltimore Business Journal reports.

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De Laurentiis, who was born in Rome and trained at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, has had shows on the Food Network channel since 2002 and has also published a series of cookbooks centering around Italian cuisine.

At the Horseshoe Casino in Baltimore, De Laurentiis will join two other celebrity chefs who have stamped their signatures on restaurants: Guy Fieri ("Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives") and Gordon Ramsay ("Master Chef").

To publicize the newest star coming to its establishment, Horseshoe Baltimore dropped a two-story banner outside with De Laurentiis' photo on it.

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Pictured, Giada De Laurentiis, who will open a restaurant in Baltimore in 2018, hosting the South Beach Wine & Food Festival in Miami Beach, Florida, on Feb. 27. (Photo by Michele Eve Sandberg/Invision/AP)