Rico Alexander is on a mission to nourish his community. As the founder of Hopeboy’s Kitchen, a vegan food trailer docked at Tyler Station near Oak Cliff Brewing Co., Alexander wants to provide healthy, delicious food options in a neighborhood where these seem scarce.first opened this past January. Alexander himself adapted a vegan diet four years ago, inspired to take up healthier habits after his mother died from cancer at 43 and his father died of a heart attack at 50.
Alexander was released in 2001 and on parole through 2006, and since then has never looked back on the “dope boy” lifestyle. His mission since has been to heal both himself and the community in which he sold drugs. Alexander’s hustle quickly evolved into pop-ups in Oak Cliff and DeSoto. He was eventually able to purchase a food trailer but initially didn’t have any idea where he would dock his mobile kitchen. He received an offer from the property owner of Tyler Station, the small business and shopping center located near the Tyler/Vernon DART station, and since then he has been operating multiple times a week, serving vegan delights behind Oak Cliff Brewing Co.
The Big Meach is a mango and peach flavored tea and the Purple Sip is a butterfly pea flower tea with“I think each and every week we're building momentum, and that keeps me hopeful,” Alexander says. “I just want to spread this vegan food all over the city of Dallas, man. I have people say ‘I'm coming from Fort Worth’ or ‘I'm coming from McKinney’ or ‘I’m coming from Waxahachie.
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