Hooker's Bread Pudding a Taste of New Orleans

John Birdsall

Bread pudding with caramel sauce ($5).

​Day-old Hooker's Sweet Treats combines a brooding sense of 19th-century style with vivid tastes ― including owner David "Hooker" Williams' boyhood-inspired bread pudding, and coffee drinks from some of the first batches of beans from Sightglass's in-house roaster.

John Birdsall

​Williams has expanded slightly beyond the salted, chocolate-covered caramels Hooker's is best known for. Warm New Orleans bread pudding (Williams grew up in Louisiana) is wonderfully dense and crisp-surfaced ― studded with raisins and pecans ― under a satiny, butter-enhanced caramel sauce. Fantastic. Later in the day, the pudding will give way to caramel popcorn and, of course, those caramels. French-press coffee and espresso drinks, like we said, from Sightglass beans.