The Alabama News Center — Velvet Pig offers elevated bar food, heart for service in Alabama’s Port City

By: Susan Swagler

The former Crystal Ice building in Mobile is cool in a whole new way these days, as the husband-and-wife team of Max Donaldson and Mackenzie Klyce are honoring the past and creating a fun, delicious future.

Their Velvet Pig eatery in the Ice Box bar (21 and over) offers Chef Mackenzie’s delicious, inventive dishes that utilize Max’s whole-animal butchery skills. Mackenzie says they originally approached the owners of the Ice Box bar with the idea of bringing in a food component. They ended up buying the place.

The two began working toward this business years ago, and every part of their shared food-related history has been a piece of the culinary puzzle.

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