4 February 2025

This is a short version of the weekly-ish newsletter from Loaf in Stirchley.

🍞 Pre-order your bread and pastries 🥐

Our opening hours this week are:
10th January Friday: 12-6
11th January Saturday: 8-1

We're back from Friday!

Thank you for your patience over our winter shutdown. We had a good rest and will start working in the bakery from Thursday. You can place your pre-orders on our website from now till Thursday morning (10am) for collection on Friday from 12pm or Saturday from 8am!

Join us for a course

We believe everyone has the right to be able to find, cook, and eat real food every day. We’ve developed courses that enable you to do just that.

Whether it’s learning how to make sourdough bread or fillet fresh fish, Loaf’s in-house staff and expert external tutors will guide you through every step of the process.

You will leave our courses feeling confident that you can start reproducing the magic at home in your own kitchen. No prior experience necessary!

Seafood Masterclass with Lap-fai Lee

Many people are reluctant (or even scared) to undertake fish preparation – when it’s something that has been part of life for centuries. Our workshop takes all of the fear out of fish, and gives you the knowledge, skills and confidence to go home and start enjoying preparing fish in your own kitchen. It’s pretty quick, straight-forward and fun when you know how!

Our next all day course on Saturday 25th January has still some spaces available.

Using the freshest possible fish and shellfish from Birmingham’s excellent wholesale and indoor market, you’ll also be introduced to both Asian and European cookery styles and sit down to eat some incredible dishes throughout the day that you will make. Dishes vary according to season and freshness but you can be sure of a fantastic fishy feast.

During the course you’ll learn about and prepare:

• Round fish like mackerel, sea bass or bream

• Flatfish like lemon sole and turbot

• Squid

• Prawns

• Oysters

• Live crabs or lobster (subject to season availability).

Cookery school classes

The following classes have spaces as of this newsletter being posted.

Loaf’s all-day classes:

• Bread — Back to Basics: Tue 28 Jan, Sat 22 Mar

• Simply Sourdough: Sat 15 Mar

• Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: Sat 8 Mar

• Baking with Heritage Grains Sat 29 Mar

• Wholegrain Baking with Tom Baker: Sat 1 Mar

Haseen’s evening classes:

• Dosa: Tue 4 Mar

• Thaali: Wed 19 Mar

Lap’s all-day classes:

• Sausage & Charcuterie: Sat 8 Feb

• Seafood Masterclass: Sat 25 Jan

Lap’s evening classes:

• Thai: Wed 5 Mar

• Ramen: Sold out at the moment. More dates will be released.

• Dumplings: Wed 26 Feb

• Knife Skills: Wed 5 Feb

We run classes throughout the year (except August and December) and schedule new dates as soon as possible. You can sign up to alert lists for specific classes here.

Vouchers are also available on our website.

No lunches this week!

We will be open on Friday and Saturday this week to sell bread and pastries.

But we will have sausage and vegetable rolls on sale (until sold out).

Our lunches will be back from Wednesday 18th January.

Thanks for all your continued support. See you next week!

Team Loaf: Michael, Dorit, Rach, Neil, Martha, Mina, Molly, Pete, Dave, Zahrah, Andy, Lee & Kate.

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