{"id":16568,"date":"2020-09-27T14:05:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T21:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/?p=16568"},"modified":"2025-05-18T10:55:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T17:55:31","slug":"david-upchurch-chocolatier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/david-upchurch-chocolatier\/","title":{"rendered":"David Upchurch Chocolatier"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>638 2nd St, Oakland<\/h4>\n<h2>Parisian inspiration<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4396\" src=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/72LocalChocolatier.png\" alt=\"Local Chocolatier\" width=\"72\" height=\"68\" \/>Established in 2017 by former architect David Upchurch, the eponymous <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duchocolatier.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Upchurch Chocolatier<\/a>,<\/strong> offers chocolate confections and p\u00e2te de fruit inspired by a year spent in Paris (where he tasted European chocolate for the first time) and years apprenticing with SFBA chocolatiers, <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/saratoga-chocolates\/\">Saratoga Chocolates<\/a>\u00a0and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/recchiuti-confections\/\">Recchiuti Confections<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A bean-to-bar devotee, David often uses small batch, single origin chocolate in his confections. He also sometimes includes chocolate in his p\u00e2te de fruit.<\/p>\n<p>You can buy David Upchurch Chocolatier confections online and at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noevalleyfarmersmarket.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Noe Valley Farmers Market<\/a> on Saturdays<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agriculturalinstitute.org\/stonestown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stonestown Farmers Market<\/a> on Sundays<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/chocolate-covered\/\">Chocolate Covered SF<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>CBTB mentions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to \u201cCraft chocolate party\u201d\" href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/ourchocolatiers\/craft-chocolate-party\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Craft chocolate party<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by a year in Paris and years apprenticing in SFBA, David Upchurch makes chocolate confections and p\u00e2te de fruit with a bean-to-bar aspect<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-tourpage.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,146,15,41,740],"tags":[17,1209,1468],"class_list":["post-16568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chocolatier-2","category-listingssfba","category-local-chocolate","category-san-francisco-chocolate","category-sf-west-side","tag-chocolatier","tag-david-upchurch-chocolatier","tag-listing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16568"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44412,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568\/revisions\/44412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}