Lenôtre: Carré Fraise

For Monday, I went from the priority shop I missed last week, down to getting Christmas cakes from JPH, though from the same department store: Lenôtre at Ginza Mitsukoshi. They were sold out of most things, which is good: they are catching on enough that they should be able to continue. They had lots of Carré Fraise, a new cake among the red fruit cakes introduced for Christmas. Like the Carré Orange, this was a dense traditional (think eastern Europe) cake with just ganache as the decadent part, only fruit instead of chocolate or just butter and nuts, which works well, especially as something different. I can say that this is excellent, so Lenôtre stays far above the pack of exceptional shops, ready to be promoted with Origines Cacao closes and three levels of shops get to promote their top shop. I was a little lazy, as I only ran there and mostly walked back, though I did do the indoor weights workout, I think (if I'm remembering correctly the sequence).