Love Chez Josephine! An amazing place for a unique dining experience! Between the decor and entertainment, I felt like I was in an old time French Bistro. The service was top notch, and the food was delicious! I will definitely be going back 🥰

Fun pre-theater restaurant!
Had a spot by the window which made it fun people-watching.

Fantastic service. Lovely piano music. Steak Tartare was on the money.

very enjoyable experience. Music and ambiance was wonderful.

elegant atmosphere. Great food. Quiet corner table. Good music. totally enjoyable experience

Great atmosphere, and great service. Food was delicious!! Pianist was on point as well!

Gabe the piano player was amazing And our waiter went out of his way to make sure everything was perfect This would definitely be my go to place if we lived here. But will definitely come back here every time we come to NY

The ambiance and service were excellent. The food overall was delicious although the escargot appetizer was a bit disappointing (a little too much butter and oil).

Chez Josephine is a gem of a French bistro in the heart of the Theater District. The food is delicious, the ambiance is comforting and rich with texture, and the service is friendly and attentive. I’m a repeat client and I will be back.

Celebrating wife birthday. Very romantic from the lighting to the cozy corner seating with a live pianist playing in the background. The food was delicious from the appetizer to dessert. The staff even serenaded my wife with happy birthday as they presented her dessert.

We hadn’t been to Chez Josephine in ages and never for lunch! It was spectacular. The food was delicious, the service by Manuel was superb. He was warm, welcoming and attentive.
The ambience was transporting- We felt like we were in another more sedate era which was sorely needed in these turbulent time. We highly recommend Chez Josephine!

It was a wonderful way to celebrate a birthday.
Thank you for making this a memorable day.
However, we were concerned that we were never asked our vaccination status.

Wonderful meal while listening to some great music. American Songbook Sunday in English and French!

The food was outstanding!

Most beloved restaurant. Food is outstanding and you will get top notch service. The live piano and show is the cherry on top of a great evening out! Viva la Josephine

The space is beautiful but the staff and the service are beyond impressive! When you step into the venue, you feel as though you’ve gone back in time. The interior decorating is impeccable and the live music is phenomenal. You will have a great time!

The restaurant was greatly understaffed. I have to assume the kitchen was too.

Very well-made French fare. Service is friendly, though they could use more staff. Live piano music

It's a fun, pretty place with great piano music. Unfortunately, the service is very bad. Although they called to confirm my reservation, they could not find it when we first arrived. Then we are seated with no menu and our first server is annoyed when she comes to take our order and we request a menu. A second server delivers the first course, and a third server delivers the second course. I chose the Restaurant Week 3 course menu. Suddenly another person takes my plate, utensils and napkin. and brings a check. I tell him I have not received my desert yet and we told the first server we need separate checks. He returns with the wrong desert. Corrects that and brings no utensils for the desert. I capture another server and get two forks. Then yet another person delivers one check. I tell them again that we need two checks. They separate the check and it's wrong. They attempted to charge me 14.00 for the soup that was part of the 3 course option. They corrected everything with a spirit of irritation instead of embarrassment about numerous mistakes. Although I like the ambiance and the piano music, it's not worth it.

The food was great! I had the shrimp entree and the risotto was delicious with it. I also tried the crab cakes and would highly recommend those.

The service was pretty bad. The waiters were nice, but we ate outside and they completely forgot about us. They weren’t good about checking in to refill drinks or anything.

Excellent! Great value- live music and delicious meal. Singer was absolutely great!

Delightful experience highly recommend a visit. Try it.

I’ve been here a few times and always had a great experience unfortunately this time there was hair in my food very disappointed.

My Favorite place in Midtown! Ambiance, music, food, service all are excellent!

The food was delicious and fabulous - would recommend this restaurant and will go again.

A smallish restaurant serving excellent French cuisine. Quiet, and comfortable. They could use some more staff, but maybe that's hard to get nowadays.

Went as a party of 4 for brunch during Restaurant week. Was not very busy but it took very long for our food to come out. Food was good. Also there were a lot of flies and gnats around the window tables.

Food was delicious

We are visiting New York and we were excited to experience restaurant week. The menu impressed us and the food did as well.

I was drawn to this place for its cute ambience and history, but was a bit disappointed with the food and drinks. They are definitely charging tourist trap prices. The food was just a bit mediocre when compared to a similar price point of the same cuisine in NYC.
What ruined the experience was when my partner ordered his second drink, after not enjoying his first one much. I will admit my drink also wasn’t anything special (it was an inoffensive mango-ey margarita with a Tajin rim. Hard to mess that up.)He went up to the bartender and asked if they could make a sazerac, they answered confidently so he left an extra tip to the bartender and returned to the table.
When the drink arrived my partner said it was the worst sazerac he’s had in a very long time. I was still a bit hungry and wanted to order more food after our 3 appetizers and 1 entree, but his mood was so ruined about this place we had to leave and finish dinner somewhere else. He did not finish his drink.

If the ambience wasn’t so charming this would have been a 2 star review.

A beautiful unique place. Fair price priceless history of the icon Josephine Baker.

Wonderful charming restaurant with a fun French atmosphere and great live music. Delicious food too!!

Everything is always fabulous at Chez Josephine.

Beautiful and fun atmosphere. Great food and drinks. Excellent service. Great live music.

Great food at great prices. Excellent service. We will be back.

Lovely ambience. We went for the NYC restaurant week and ended up ordering off the main menu. The food was quite delicious down to every last morsel and filling. Of course we could not leave with out having dessert which was just as good. The drinks although good were a little pricey. I definitely would go back.

foods were amazing. piano jazz was also awesome.
but service was rude and impolite. when my friend asked question about food he didn’t explain about it just repeat the name of food. during whole dinner he almost ignored us. left tips but totally waste of each dollar.
I will go this place again for foods and piano music but if I have this server again , will ask another person for sure.

It was quite a disappointment. I would not recommend to a friend. The service was ok but the quality of the food has deteriorated. The waiter confused the order and brought us the wrong food. Items on the menu were not available. I remember with fond memories the restaurant having gone there in the past. That is why I brought a friend who was visiting from out of town. But it was a disappointment. I won’t be returning.

I enjoyed the appetizers and desserts . The guy at the bar was very attentive. Service was good.

The actual waiter was lovely…however (and this is astonishing) one of Joseph Baker’s adopted son works there and he was so rude and nasty…made our table feel uncomfortable and unwelcome when we merely asked for more bread…so nasty!