{"id":326533,"date":"2025-10-23T13:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/326533\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T13:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:13:12","slug":"french-patisserie-in-san-marcos-to-host-chocolate-pop-up-next-week-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/326533\/","title":{"rendered":"French patisserie in San Marcos to host chocolate pop-up next week \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christophe Rull Patisserie in the North City development of San Marcos will host a two-day artisan chocolate pop-up event next week.<\/p>\n<p>Rull, a World Chocolate Master finalist, is partnering with Michelin-trained chocolatier Annaluna Karkar for the event. She\u2019ll be making and selling a variety of hand-made chocolate specialty items and he\u2019ll be serving his fresh-baked pastries.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2025\/09\/12\/renowned-french-pastry-chef-opens-his-first-bakeshop-in-san-marcos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rull opened his first pastry shop<\/a> near his home in San Marcos. It sells fresh-baked baguettes, macarons, croissants, eclairs, cookies, muffins and much more. Rull hopes to introduce his own signature chocolates to the shop\u2019s product mix, but hasn\u2019t had the time or space to do that yet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"French pastry chef Christophe Rull inside his newly opened Christophe Rull Patisserie in the North City community of San Marcos. (Pam Kragen \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)\" width=\"1600\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/sut-l-dine-rull1.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9457409\" \/>French pastry chef Christophe Rull inside his newly opened Christophe Rull Patisserie in the North City community of San Marcos. (Pam Kragen \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)<\/p>\n<p>Rull is best known for his starring role in the Netflix baking competition series \u201cBake Squad\u201d and for his triumphs in chocolate-making and shaping.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2021\/10\/13\/san-diego-surfing-chef-crowned-americas-chocolate-king\/\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2021\/10\/13\/san-diego-surfing-chef-crowned-americas-chocolate-king\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">He won the title of U.S. Chocolate Master in 2021<\/a>\u00a0and came in fifth place in the 2022 World Chocolate Master competition in Paris. He also served as the executive pastry chef at the Park Hyatt Aviara resort in Carlsbad from 2016 to 2021.<\/p>\n<p>For the pop-up, Rull is bringing in his friend Annaluna Karkar, who was part of Rull\u2019s prep team at the 2022 World Chocolate Masters in Paris.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Annaluna Chocolate's almond hazelnut flower tablet chocolate bars will be among the items sold at Christophe Rull Patisserie's chocolate pop-up sale Oct. 28-29 in San Marcos. (Annaluna Chocolate)\" width=\"606\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/sut-l-dine-chocolate.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9500922\" \/>Annaluna Chocolate\u2019s almond hazelnut flower tablet chocolate bars will be among the items sold at Christophe Rull Patisserie\u2019s chocolate pop-up sale Oct. 28-29 in San Marcos. (Annaluna Chocolate)<\/p>\n<p>After training in Italy and working alongside Michelin-starred chefs, Karkar founded Annaluna Chocolate, known for its balance of flavor, texture and visual beauty. Her Mediterranean roots and love for natural forms inspire her distinctive aesthetic and flavor combinations.<\/p>\n<p>Among the many items she\u2019ll be selling are sticky toffee and walnut cinnamon baklava bars, almond hazelnut milk and dark chocolate bars with flower decorations, dark chocolate peppermint \u201cstem\u201d bites, and passion coconut owl-shaped chocolates.<\/p>\n<p>The pop-up will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 28 and 29, at 251 N. City Drive, San Marcos. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/christopherullpro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">instagram.com\/christopherullpro<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: October 23, 2025 at 6:00 AM PDT<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christophe Rull Patisserie in the North City development of San Marcos will host a two-day artisan chocolate pop-up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":326534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,64,1582,276,20947,2105,1370,8738,988,6270,3549,3550,48789,7264,1072,7289,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-326533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-dining","13":"tag-food-and-drink","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-north-county","16":"tag-restaurants","17":"tag-retail","18":"tag-san-diego","19":"tag-san-diego-county","20":"tag-san-marcos","21":"tag-sandiego","22":"tag-things-to-do","23":"tag-top-stories-sdut","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115423662664195527","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}