The phrase "arriving diners" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to customers who are coming into a restaurant or dining establishment at a particular time.
Example: "The restaurant staff prepared a special welcome for the arriving diners to enhance their dining experience."
Alternatives: "incoming guests" or "newly seated patrons".
Arriving diners see a long attractive bar, 10 rattan love seats and coffee tables and may fear the worst, but one bite of the food reassures.
A lot of the arriving diners and drinkers at Gibby's say hello to him in an easy, friendly way, but there isn't much hearty bar chatter with the host.
He runs, not walks, to greet arriving diners, calling them "dear friends" and asking "how's your daughter?" One couple walked into Bistro Cassis when it was almost empty, but it quickly filled soon after.
At a popular restaurant in Lviv, the biggest city in the west, a heavily armed man dressed in anti-communist resistance fatigues greets arriving diners with the words "Glory to Ukraine!" and demands to know whether there are any Moskali, a derogatory term for Russians, among the group.
Arriving diners wind through various rooms to reach the dining room, where a piano is topped with wine bottles.
As courses arrive, diners might find themselves asking a perfectly reasonable question: Does the food I'm eating justify the stiff tariff?
Bread, butter and water arrived before diners could settle in their chairs.
The restaurant's wood-burning oven is a warm and diverting focal point where Mr. Albergo warms and sometimes bakes the focaccia that arrives when diners are seated.
(Even before the first course arrives, alert diners know this is more than a garden-variety burger and beer corner tavern from the basket of warm muffins, biscuits and breads).
Four slips available for diners arriving by boat.
On weeknights, however, diners arriving before 7 30 can usually be assured of a table.
