The Wildcat Cafe, Heritage log cabin restaurant in Yellowknife, Canada

The Wildcat Cafe is a log cabin with a front gable roof in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, built in the mining camp style of early Yellowknife. Its facade is laid in horizontal logs, with a white sign above the entrance reading "WILDCAT CAFE" in black uppercase letters. To the left of the central doorway, which has a dark screen and a glass pane above it, is a weathered vertical-plank door with a small window and a yellow sticker; to the right stands a smaller green-roofed structure with a green sign, a green panel, a window and a green wooden bench.

Willie Wylie and Smokey Stout opened the cafe in 1937 as the first restaurant in the newly founded settlement. It became a symbol of the early days when prospectors arrived seeking gold.

The cafe's name is not explained in the sources; the building is a log cabin in the mining camp style of early Yellowknife. Mah Gow, Yellowknife's first recorded Chinese resident, ran it from 1942 until illness closed it in 1951. Today a summer restaurant operates inside, managed by the Wildcat Cafe Advisory Committee.

The cabin sits in what was Yellowknife's early central business district and serves as a summer restaurant. It reopened on June 22, 2013, after a rebuild overseen by log cabin builder Rick Muyres, who had the pieces catalogued and numbered before disassembly began on May 11, 2011. Look for the white "WILDCAT CAFE" sign above the main door and the smaller green-roofed structure with a green bench to the right.

The cabin was taken apart in 2011, with each log catalogued and numbered before reconstruction under builder Rick Muyres; it reopened on 22 June 2013. A replica of the cafe was also displayed at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec.