Diane’s Bakery Cafe
“When you walk in you're immediately greeted with glass cases of beautiful pastries, cookies, cakes, and pies.”
“For the prices, they aren't as bad as the dearly departed Bruce's in Great Neck, and the people who work their aren't as nearly insufferable, either.”
“Her luscious pear almond tart is something to tempt you with a yummy cup of Earl Grey or hot coffee.”
Diane’s Bakery Cafe
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Accepts Apple Pay: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range Moderate
8 reviews
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Diane's Bakery Cafe is a cute cafe that can be enjoyed with a friend or a significant other, but the mission for Diane's was to acquire pie for Pi Day. Each pie is $26, so not a cheap pie; however, if you compare to what you can get in the city, Diane's Bakery is a good price!
FOOD: I got apple pie and mixed berry pie. I would have to say, what I love about it is that the homemade taste of the pie crust and also the not too sweet filling are on spot with Diane's pies. I always cringe when I eat a pie that's too sweet, but not these ones. The apple pie had the nice soft apples with the right amount of runny sweet apple juice at the bottom. The mixed berry pie was also an explosion of flavor of sweet berries and wrapped around in a nice flaky crust.
Got it to go and consumed the following day. Definitely delicious and a crowd pleaser in the office!
You must try desserts when you come here! The lunch food is very good, but the baked goods and sweets are exquisite. Delicious: cookies, brownies, cupcakes, banana cream pie! They all taste as good as they look. How often can you say that about baked goods?
The layout of the establishment is nice: bakery in front, seating upstairs and down a step into the back. It is worth a trip from anywhere to sample these delicious treats.
Also a nice place to meet a friend or share a first date.
The best hazelnut coffee ever! They have a bunch of really yummy salads in the back that you can take to go or have there. I had this corn salad with cilantro and tomatoes, as well as Brussels sprouts which were very tasty! The place is very nicely decorated and is very inviting!
We had lunch here in addition to picking up some cookies for later. The cookies were the most outstanding part of the experience – we got different kinds of cookies with a butter cookie base, and they were all good. My favorites were the ones with nuts.
For lunch we split a panini (panino?). It was more standard but not bad – melty mozzarella with olives & some greens. We happened to go during the week and late in the day, and the seating area was kind of odd – it took a long time for our food to come and employees kept walking in & out of the restaurant, but this may have just been due to the odd time we were there.
A co-worker just brought in a box of cookies, Mmm Mmm Good! The curry pecan one is really different. I had several different butter cookies and they were all delicious! I usually don't like bakery pre-bought cookies (from some other factory) but these are pretty darn good!
If you look up "quaint" in the dictionary you'll see a picture of Diane's Bakery Cafe. When you walk in you're immediately greeted with glass cases of beautiful pastries, cookies, cakes, and pies. Once you will yourself to keep walking, you enter the rest of the bottom floor of the cafe, with seating, and the front counter to order your food.
It's not table service, so you go up to the front to either order a sandwich, or fill a plate a mile high with all of the delicious salads, pastas, veggies, etc, that they have on display. Their menu and food selection changes slightly everyday so you'll always get something new each time you go.
The downside is the price. A normal size plate of food and a drink will set you back nearly $20. A little much for a casual lunch; but the food is worth it.
Came in for dessert seeing as this was the only dessert place I could find in the area through yelp. I got the chocolate cheesecake and an iced mocha cappuccino. My girlfriend got the vanilla coconut cupcake and an iced coffee.
The drinks were fairly good with the exception of a little too much mocha flavor in the cappuccino. Probably should've stuck with a regular.
The vanilla coconut cupcake was alright. The cake itself could of been much softer and a lot more moist but unfortunately it was not.
As for the chocolate cheesecake, DO NOT get it. I was so excited to have it and say down, stuck my fork in it and already before taking a bite knew something was wrong. Cheesecake is supposed to be creamy and melt in my mouth. This did everything but. It was hard as if it had been sitting there for a couple of days. I didn't eat it.
I complained about it and they did give me a refund for it which should be expected. But it's very safe to say, Diane's will never be seeing this face again.
Diane's is definitely an estrogen magnet.. lol. Not necessarily something negative, but lunch time in Port Washington seems to attract a very LARGE amount of middle aged women that seem to meet for lunch and gossip the afternoon away.
On to the food —
I've been here once, and have yet to try anything else.
I got the chicken pot pie — $9.50
and a brownie.
The pot pie crust was the best part, otherwise I feel the pie was lacking flavor, very little chicken, it was satisfying to a degree, however I won't go looking for this next visit.
Brownie was pretty damn good, not an overly fudgey saturated brownie (I hate brownies like that), but it was just enough richness and "cakeness" to satisfy my brownie requirements.
Will definitely return to try out some other stuff.