Maria Almenara — Jesus Maria

It is at Av. Gral. Juan Antonio Álvarez de Arenales 400 in Jesús María. Unlike several of the brand's shops, this one does have dine-in, and Google highlights the good coffee and the desserts as well as an atmosphere it describes as relaxed and stylish. Our read: this is the café version of the brand rather than the display-case one, which makes it the branch in the area worth staying at; the counterweight is parking, since it has no lot of its own and Google warns that street spaces are hard to find. It opens all seven days from 8 in the morning to 10 at night. Maria Almenara carries the name of María Alejandra Almenara, who according to the house's own website discovered pastry as a child in Talara alongside her mother and has spent more than three decades making desserts; the brand grew from an artisanal bakery to more than twenty shops in Lima, and presents itself as the first Peruvian pastry house to use data and artificial intelligence to anticipate demand and avoid over-baking. The house also displays Summum recognitions as best pastry shop in 2022 and 2024. Curation note: phone, website and Instagram are the brand's, not this branch's; the house's website publishes neither per-shop addresses nor hours, so address and hours come from Google, and it publishes no menu with per-item prices either, so the menu remains pending.