Southern-style banana pudding in over a dozen rotating flavors comes to La Mesa from Extraordinary Banana Pudding on El Paso Street, built on a family recipe dating back more than 30 years and brought to a storefront in 2020. The core recipe layers Nilla wafer, fresh-sliced banana, and from-scratch custard, then spins into variants like ube, pistachio, and red velvet cheesecake — a rotating-flavor dessert model that pairs naturally with the single-origin roasts at Dark Horse Coffee Roasters across the La Mesa dining scene. Beyond the signature cups, the kitchen produces pudding-filled cupcakes, layered pudding cakes, and a proprietary pudding taco that folds custard into a crisped shell. That catering-ready menu now supplies events at Brick + Laurel in La Mesa, alongside wholesale accounts at Hyatt Regency properties in Mission Bay and La Jolla. Dietary-modified batches include vegan, gluten-free, and sugar-free formulations that swap dairy-based custard for plant-derived thickeners while maintaining the layered wafer-banana-custard architecture.