Ladurée, Religieuse Fraise

Saturday, I planned to run, but ending up with a headache, so no running that or the next day (or cake the next day). I wanted a new cake from Ladurée, which got promoted to the exceptional shops when I redid the rating metric a while back, but was dominated by some cake shops ranked below, so I needed to deal with those first. I choose Religieuse Fraise, which was chancy on both fronts (not that I'm against religieuse in general, but I haven't ranked this shops choux pastry based cakes that highly, which was most of their new cakes). It was very strawberry, as cream as well as pieces of fruit. Compared to other strawberry cakes, I though this very good, so I'm going to rate it as excellent, giving it somewhat the benefit of the doubt. I'm still one down on this shop, but I have at least a couple other places in similar positions that I want to hit first before coming back to this.