Scott Kidder

There are those who say the restaurants that oligarchs frequent in Moscow out-Vegas Las Vegas. This raises a question: Is New York ready for an oligarch like Mr. Prokhorov?

“Absolutely,” said Mark Yackow, the manager of the hosts at Scores New York on West 28th Street. (The hosts look after “the high rollers.”)

“If he said, ‘I’d like to have my own area here,’ we’d rope it off,” Mr. Yackow said. “We’d have a security person by the rope, and that person, his assignment is to make sure he’s treated like a king. Hopefully the girls do their job and get him into a private room, and then the security job is a lot easier.”

He was quick to add that is not what it sounds like: “All the private rooms have doors; there are no locks on the doors. We send the waitresses in every 15 minutes, make sure everything is good.”

Mr. Prokhorov could try the National, a nightclub in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. “The floor show is surreal,” someone who identified herself as Sadie S. wrote on the restaurant review site Yelp.com. “Showgirls, drag queens, cover bands, 20 costume changes and a cast of thousands!”