High-Stakes Elegance
A hundred years of hushed rooms, hand-turned wheels and candlelit tables on the water’s edge. One address on the coast has never needed to raise its voice.
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The Grand Hall · Restored 2019
About Us
The Maliska opened in the spring of 1926 as a private house for a small circle, and it has kept that temperament ever since. Carrara marble, Lalique glass and a vaulted ceiling drawn by an architect who never built anything else. Everything you see was made to outlast its own century, and most of it has.
Four generations of one family have kept the property since, changing very little and refusing a great deal. The result is a house that feels less like a resort than a well-kept secret: unhurried service, rooms that hold their quiet, and a standard of hospitality that has never had to be reinvented.
The Casino Experience
Two thousand four hundred square metres beneath one vaulted ceiling, lit by chandeliers rewired but never replaced. No screens, no music, no announcements. Only the sound of a wheel finding its number and a shoe sliding across felt.
La Roulette Française
Single-zero wheels turned by hand on mahogany bases cast in Paris, each one balanced by the same atelier that supplied the house in its opening season. The croupiers call in French, as they always have, and the ivory settles under a single pool of amber light.
Twelve wheels beneath the Salle Dorée
Baccarat Chemin de Fer
The oldest game in the house, dealt by hand from a lacquered shoe across charcoal felt printed in gold. Cards are turned slowly here. It is a game of composure rather than speed, and the room keeps its voice low for it.
Six tables across the eastern salons
Les Salons Privés
Behind a walnut door on the mezzanine, twelve panelled rooms hold a single table apiece. Oxblood leather, a low brass lamp, drapes drawn to the sill. Admission is at the quiet discretion of the Directeur du Jeu, and always has been.
By the introduction of the house
The Salle
Daily, 14:00 until 04:00
Dress
Black tie observed after 20:00
The Floor
2,400 m² under one vault
The Plaques
Mother-of-pearl, cast in Paris
Fine Dining & Lounges
The kitchens open at seven and close when the last table is content. Between them sit a Michelin-standard dining room, a bar that has poured the same eleven cocktails since the thirties, and three private salons lit entirely by candle.
Gastronomie
Our flagship dining room, where a nine-course tasting menu changes with the market and never with fashion. The kitchen works to a Michelin-star standard under Chef Élise Bardot, sourcing from the coast each morning and from the same three farms it has used for thirty years.
Dinner, Tuesday through Sunday · The mezzanine
Cocktails & Cigars
Backlit shelves of amber spirit run the length of a black marble counter edged in brass. The list runs to eleven house cocktails and a cellar of vintage armagnac, and the humidor at the far end has been kept at the same temperature since 1931.
From 17:00 until late · The ground floor
Private Rooms
Three private dining rooms sit above the main floor, each panelled in near-black walnut with gold moulding and lit entirely by candle. They seat between ten and twenty-four, and every one of them has its own service door, so an evening passes without a single interruption.
Ten to twenty-four guests · By arrangement with the concierge
“Nothing here is new. That is rather the point.”
Hélène Maliska · Fourth-generation proprietor
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