Cafe Diana

Great cake, good variety of hot drinks, small outdoor seating area. This little café is nothing fancy but it was just what we were looking for for a chilled cuppa in the sunshine. Cash only, walls covered in Princess Di :)

Gross is all I can say. Sausage tasted like mushy something or other. Can’t say for sure if it was meat.

Un local pequeñito y un pelin caro, puedes comer pero nosotros nos tomamos un café y un cake!
Es un pequeño templo dispuesto para la memoria de Lady Di.
Lleno de fotos y momentos. Peculiar y tierno si le tienes un cariño especial a Diana. A mi me gusto por este encanto.

Apple cake and custard! Right opposite of Kensington/​Hyde Park.

Ive only ever had one thing from here and always taken it away so it’s a bit hard to write a proper review.
The restaurant always seems clean and tidy and as you can guess by the name the theme is around the late princess Diana. The staff are always friendly and happy to chat.
I go for the chicken cube and lamb kebab salad tray (onion, lettuce, red cabbage, tomatoes, pickles, peppers and herbs) with Pita bread and sauces I. e humous, chilli and peri peri.
The main negative is that all the meat is pre cooked and then microwaved when ordered.

Café Diana has the worst customer service of any restaurant I went to in London. The waitstaff was incredibly inattentive and very rude. At the end, the waitress refused to let me pay for a 10.50 pound meal with a 20 pound note; she claimed that they didn’t have the change, and that if I wanted to make change, I could go next door! Talk about terrible customer service.
I found the wall-​to-​wall pictures of Princess Diana to be creepy, overdone, and somehow inauthentic. I only saw girls working there that were in their late teens or early 20s and didn’t seem to be native English speakers. I couldn’t help but think that they probably couldn’t even remember when she died or who she was. I’m sure they were the owner’s daughters or something. Anyways, whoever owns this place needs to work on training the waitresses on how to treat customers.

This is the perfect place to have a breakfast in Bayswater. I will highly recommend the hot chocolate it’s awesome. There is nothing special in the menu, but the service is quick and friendly. There are many photos of Lady Diana on the walls which are really great !

Really great staff and good food and drink.

I’m usually wordy with my reviews, but I think I can make the review short and sweet for Café Diana. Actually, riffing on the Jackson 5, this review is easy as A B C (*A* *B*ulleted *C*afe Diana review, that is)
Continuing on, as simple as Do Re Mi, let’s giddit:
Pros:
— on a sunny day, the location is great. A few sidewalk tables outdoors, good for people watching, Hyde Park-​access, and great meandering potential
— if you happen to be entertaining anglophiles from North America who continue to be fascinated by the Princess of Wales (I’ve been known to), this is a great spot to hit pre– or post– Kensington Palace visit
— the owners/​staff are lovely smiley folk
Cons:
— the food itself is pretty average; the full English is standard, and the falafel is just ok
— you pay for ‘novelty factor’; in essence, Café Diana is the type of neighbourhood spot you find all around London… save for the Princess Diana draw.
Unilocal note: a neat place to go once or twice — or when visitors insist — but, given the vast range of options in the city of London, it’s not liable to become your go-​to.

This café is dedicated to Princess Diana, and it’s sort of… weird seeing her picture on almost every available surface of the restaurant. It was especially odd that I was zoning out one morning, looking at a picture of Diana standing next to an Indian or Pakistani gentleman… and suddenly became aware of someone asking me if I was ready to order… and it was the same guy!
I’ve only been here for breakfast, but the Full English can’t be beat; it’s my favorite breakfast place in all of London!

Horrible, overcooked fish and chips. Breads were stale, baguette was extremely hard, coffee was burned. Worst meal I had in London this time around. Steer clear.

This place has delicious falafel sandwiches for a reasonable price, which is great when you’re dealing with the nasty dollar-​pound exchange rate. It is a little weird having a hundred pictures of Princess Diana stare down at you as you’re eating that delicious falafel sandwich, but the great food, relatively large portions, and attentive service more than makes up for the creepy factor.
It also has a great location near Kensington Gardens and is close to two tube stations.

Some of the best falafel in London with great spicy pickles, it’s a whole meal in a great big pitta. True there is an excessive slightly creepy Diana thing going on, but I love good falafel.

As a tourist, whenever Im in London the first place I visit is Café Diana. I dont find it quirky at all. The establishment is a little small and tight to get around but the coffee is delicious and I find the staff very very friendly. I find all of the pictures entertaining. Especailly the ones of Diana visiting she use to go in there occasionally for her morning cup of joe.
I love the place.

Interestingly enough I was here on a day where the owner, his brother and his associate were sitting outside. I was on crutches and was sitting next to them. They were SO nice, even bought me and my sister a cocoa and let us use their cell phone. Also gave us some inside scoops on Diana when she used to come in on her way to picking will n harry from their school around the corner. Sits right in front of the other end of Notting Hill Gate and around the corner is the park where Hugh Grant jumps over the fence in «Notting Hill» and says the memorable «oopsy-​daisy» line that cracks Julia Roberts character up!
As for the food tho… um stay away from the Mayonaise, corn and chicken sandwich. Or should I say do you want some corn, chicken and bread with your mayo? totally artery clogging.

There’s something quite frightening about Café Diana. I stumbled in here last week to grab a quick coffee before a show at Notting Hill Arts Club — it was the only non-​Starbucksy place open, and it wasn’t until my friends and I had taken a seat and started to thaw that we noticed the two main walls were completely plastered with photos of Princess Diana.
Diana dressed as a pilot, Diana in this posh frock and that posh frock… a hundred Princess eyes gazed down on us as we ordered from the friendly waiting staff. The weirdest pictures were the unposed, slightly surprised ones, those where she’d obviously been papped while out minding her own business. Why would you put those up in a place that tries to keep her memory alive?
The coffee was pretty nice, and the menu looked interesting enough that I might return another time for a meal, if I can bear to be watched by so many Dianas all at once.

Le Café Diana est situé juste en face des jardins royaux de Kensington. Le nom du café n’a pas été choisi au hasard: sur les murs, on trouve des tonnes de photos de Lady Di. Il y en a même une où elle pose avec l’équipe. L’accueil est sympa, la salle bien éclairée avec un mobilier en bois.
J’y ai dégusté un petit déjeuner à l’anglaise (£6.75 pour deux oeufs au plats, deux tranches de bacon, deux toasts, une saucisse et des haricots blancs et un thé au lait).
Ce n’était pas très goutû m’enfin, on s’y sent bien. On y parle plus arabe qu’anglais, la carte du déjeuner propose plusieurs plats méditerranéens (brochettes…) L’endroit peut constituer une bonne halte.

Absolutely love Café Diana, I’m a regular. If you fancy eating in a friendly, slightly quirky (lots of Princess Di pictures on the walls — hence the name) café, which happens to be in a superb location (Kensington Gardens on the opposite side of the road, and within a few minutes walking distance from Notting Hill Gate Underground Station (Central, District & Circle Lines), then I would highly recommend it. Ok, the décor is somewhat dated, but that just adds to the appeal of the place, it feels sort of homely. What’s especially lovely is that the guy, Fawad, that runs the place always has a smile on his face, and remembers my name — great service :-)

A creepy little café that made me feel uncomfortable in an Alan Partridge sort of way. The walls are completely covered with blurred-​edge portraits of Princess Diana in different positions and outfits (I think I made that seem seedy and I definitely didn’t mean to. The pictures are odd but not in a porny way)
The menu is pretty average and not gimmicky (no quiche diane) and they do a mean fried breakfast.

The Café Diana pays extreme homage to the Princess of Wales, and if you’re hungry to EAT a piece of Diana, get one of her very own Dishes! I wonder about her endorsement or not… The place itself is pretty usual, the rickety tables and chairs combo and the chipper, world weary Londoner bringing you your grub, greasy and laden with the energy to pump-​start anyones day. I would recommend coming here for breakfast as the prices on the various fry up combos are pretty decent.

Pretty weird. Not one I’d choose to frequent. Possible, because Diana, the Princess of Wales, as she became knowb, doesn’t interest me that much. If she did, I’d eat in here every day.
It’s quite a normal, standard café. Not noteworthy, but for the total dominance of Diana and photos of her, and things about her, all over the walls. All over them. So they serve a decent menu of teas, coffees, café food. Continental breakfasts, toasted sandwiches. And then it gets silly — Diana’s dishes, Diana salads. The funny thing is there’s pictures of the — evidently chuffed — owner WITH DIANA. So this was going long before she died.
It’s a curio, but a bit of a creepy one

I have been coming to this place for five years, and this is the best place on Notting Hill Gate to pop in for a quick lunch, brunch or breakfast. The fry up is solid, but the real find is the Chicken Kofte Kebab (Spiced minced chicken grilled on charcoal), which comes with hummous, salad & pita. Delicious. Quaint little tables, a bit rough around the edges but delivers every time.
Full menu here: