Yes, Mary Grace is a real person. Mary Grace Dimacali started out baking at home for her five children, creating bespoke cakes for each of their birthdays and sharing her brownies and lemon squares with friends and neighbours. Eventually, she took a baking course in the US and founded Mary Grace as a home business in 1994.
She set up stalls at bazaars and local markets, and eventually opened her first takeaway kiosk in 2002, with the first dine-in cafe opening in 2006. Before long, Mary Grace had become a household name in the Philippines.
