Maria Almenara — La Molina

It operates at C. 11 477, inside the Repsol El Sauce service station in La Molina. It is among the brand's most complete branches: dine-in, toilets, its own free parking and — according to Google — an accessible entrance, parking and toilets. Our read: the service-station format, which in other brands usually means less service, here means exactly the opposite, since it grants a car park of its own and hours no other Maria Almenara shop has: it opens at 7 in the morning, an hour before the street branches and three before the mall ones. It closes at 10 at night all seven days. 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.