Maria Almenara — Santa Anita

It operates inside Mall Aventura Santa Anita, on Av. Nicolás Ayllón. Google records takeaway and delivery only, no dine-in, and tags it a quick visit. Our read: this is the brand's easternmost branch and also one of its weakest on reviews — 3.3 across eighteen opinions — which in a mall display case usually says more about waiting times and stock than about the pastry, which is the same as in every other shop. It opens all seven days from 9 in the morning to 10 at night, on the shopping centre's hours. 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.