Two Yellowknife restaurants with connections to the past are seeking new operators for the years ahead.
Old Town’s Wildcat Café, which opens from May until September each summer, is seeking an operator for 2024 and 2025,
The City of Yellowknife, which is responsible for the café, wants any operator to maintain the location’s heritage value – for example, keeping menu options roughly in line with what you might have found when the historic original café first opened in 1937.
Recent operators Wing Freak and Big Guy Fries achieved that by offering sirloin steak, an item also reflected in the original menu.
This year, the city’s regular request for a Wildcat Café operator is joined by the Yellowknife Historical Society’s search for someone to run its museum café and bar.
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The Miner’s Mess will be located inside the soon-to-be-opened museum, a project that has been in the works for years and is set to hold a grand opening in March.
The society behind the museum is offering a one-year lease for someone to run a restaurant and bar serving museum visitors.
The new restaurant will be housed inside the main museum building, originally constructed as Giant Mine’s employee recreation hall in 1953.
The deadline for Miner’s Mess proposals is February 13. For the Wildcat Café, it’s March 4.
