— Venue Directory
The world's baccarat rooms
Sixteen baccarat rooms across eight cities, reviewed by Annabel Cavendish. Real table minimums, dress codes, opening hours, and a map. Updated as venues open and close.
London
London
The Hippodrome Casino
London, United Kingdom
The West End's most democratic casino floor, where a £25 baccarat hand sits four flights below a Michelin-adjacent steakhouse.
Baccarat from £25
Les Ambassadeurs Club
London, United Kingdom
The last address in London where a willing player-bank can still call 'banco' at a Chemin de Fer table, if you can get through the door.
Baccarat from varies
Aspers Casino Stratford
London, United Kingdom
Stratford's Olympic Park casino is where East London plays baccarat: no membership, no dress code fuss, and EZ Baccarat on the main floor.
Baccarat from varies
The Empire Casino
London, United Kingdom
The Empire is Leicester Square's big, brash 24-hour floor: no pretensions, over fifty tables, and baccarat within a minute of the tube exit.
Baccarat from varies
Crockfords Closed
London, United Kingdom
Crockfords is closed, the Grade I listed house on Curzon Street is on the market, and London's most storied private casino room exists now only in the record.
Baccarat from varies
Macau
Macau
Wynn Macau
Macau, China (Macau SAR)
The room where I ate dim sum at the VIP cage and watched a croupier bend a card corner with surgical patience: Wynn Macau is where Macau's baccarat ritual is most precisely observed.
Baccarat from HK$1,000
The Venetian Macao
Macau, China (Macau SAR)
The world's largest casino floor under a painted Venice sky: at the Venetian Macao, the baccarat tables run 24 hours on a floor so large it has its own internal geography.
Baccarat from HK$1,000
Galaxy Macau
Macau, China (Macau SAR)
Galaxy Macau keeps getting bigger: eight hotels, a 16,000-seat arena, and a baccarat floor where the minimums have outpaced everything around it.
Baccarat from HK$1,000
Las Vegas
Las Vegas
Bellagio
Las Vegas, United States
The Bellagio's Salon Privé is where I've watched the Asian high-rollers play with the focused calm of people for whom the casino is an office: the Conservatory atrium outside is theatre; the baccarat inside is business.
Baccarat from $25
Wynn Las Vegas
Las Vegas, United States
The Wynn Las Vegas high-limit baccarat room has the highest ratio of marble to carpet of any casino I've visited outside Macau, and the silence in there is the particular silence of very large sums of money sitting completely still.
Baccarat from $50
Singapore
Singapore
Australia
Melbourne and Sydney
Crown Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia
Crown Melbourne opened in June 1994 and has been running 24 hours ever since; the Mahogany Room upstairs is where the dress code gets enforced with considerably more conviction than at the main door.
Baccarat from AUD$25
The Star Sydney
Sydney, Australia
The Star Sydney's Sovereign Room was built to keep serious players from flying to Macau; the NSW Casino Commission's licence conditions that followed 2022 are the reason it's been running under closer scrutiny ever since.
Baccarat from AUD$25
Europe
Monte-Carlo and Venice
Casino de Monte-Carlo
Monaco, Monaco
The Casino de Monte-Carlo opened in 1863 under Charles III, and the walk from the Hôtel de Paris across Place du Casino has not meaningfully changed since; the Salons Privés are still by reservation, and they still don't take reservations from just anyone.
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Casino di Venezia
Venice, Italy
Ca' Vendramin Calergi opens at 20:15 on Friday through Sunday; you arrive by water taxi or vaporetto; Wagner died in the rooms upstairs in 1883; the casino has been running, in one form or another, since 1638.
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