Maria Almenara — La Encalada

It is at Av. La Encalada 1180 in Surco, on the commercial spine running up from Monterrico. It is one of the brand's complete branches: dine-in, in-store shopping and pick-up, toilets, its own free parking and, per Google, accessible entrance, parking and toilets. Our read: with 475 reviews this is the brand's highest-volume shop in all of Surco, and its hours put it in the group that plays for breakfast — opening at 7 in the morning, like La Molina and San Miguel — rather than waiting for dessert time. It closes at 10 at night all seven days. Branch note: the brand has three further shops in Surco with no entries of their own in the directory — Av. Los Próceres 101, Av. Primavera 1090 (Precursores) and Jr. Monterrey 275 (Chacarilla); this entry points to the La Encalada one as by far the most reviewed. 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.