Adrienne Bailey, a retired educator who survived three bouts with cancer, has bounced back again after someone trashed her Tex La Mex food trailer.
HOUSTON, Texas — A brand-new generator and Ms. Adrianne Bailey were both humming again Friday for her Tex La Mex food trailer’s grand reopening.
“I’m just so glad, I can’t tell you,” Bailey told KHOU 11. “If I could jump, I would jump.”
“We are here for a happy occasion,” a pastor said during a rededication prayer.
“Amen!” the crowd responded.
The reopening comes more than a month after KHOU 11 first shared the retired educator and three-time cancer survivor’s story. Thieves stole her trailer, stripped previously uninsured contents, then dumped it behind a school.
Bailey, who’s known for her recipes, refurbished her “dream” trailer thanks, in part, to social media.
“It’s even better now, and we’re going to come up with some good stuff up in there,” Bailey said.
She let us inside the tiny space where she and two others crank out her comfort food.
“It looks good, I’m ready to take a bite,” said one customer who ordered Bailey’s best-selling smash burger.
“This is her heart,” customer Michelle Black told us. “And you can taste her love in her cooking.”
Bailey plans to give back to the community even more now that she’s back on her feet and in her happy place behind the counter.
“I must be here for a reason,” Bailey said. “This may be what it is.”
Bailey’s grand reopening continues all weekend in the parking lot of Sunnyside Dental on Airport Boulevard near Scott Street.
So far, no arrests have been made for the initial theft and vandalism. If you have any information, call the Houston Police Department.