Jan 27, 2026 | 2:48 pm
It sounds like a Hallmark movie plotline: a big-city girl moves to a small town, buys a rambling Victorian house, and opens a bakery.
But in this version, the heroine is cookbook author, food blogger, and social media star Joy Wilson — better known as Joy the Baker. And the bakery is Texas Bakehouse, a monthly pop-up hosted behind her 1800s home in Bellville, a little more than halfway from Austin to Houston.
Wilson relocated to Houston in 2023 after closing the original Bakehouse in New Orleans, making the move to be closer to her now-husband. The pair settled in the Rice Military neighborhood and dedicated weekends to riding their motorcycles west, with Bellville quickly capturing Wilson’s imagination…