This is the weekly bulletin from Loaf in Stirchley, with our specials, lunches and cookery school classes.
🍞 Pre-order your bread and pastries 🥐
We’ll have plenty on the shelves all week, with lunches served from noon on weekdays.
Our opening hours are:
Wed - Fri: 12-6
Saturday: 8-1
Visit us at 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL (map)
Available spaces on our Ramen evening course on Wednesday 10 July
Join Loaf and expert cookery tutor Lap-fai Lee to learn how to make alkali noodles from scratch and use them in two classic Asian noodle dishes; Chinese dandanmian and Japanese ramen.
New dates released for our cookery school classes!
We have multiple dates for our Simply Sourdough and Bread, Back to Basics, plus Seafood masterclass and Sausage & Charcuterie.
Scroll down for a full list of available dates.
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Special things this week
Sweet bakes available this week inculde Cherry and Raspberry Black Forest Slice, Pistachio & Cranberry Blondie, Smartie Sprinkle Brownie and two kinds of Cheesecake: Blueberry&Lemon and Tiramisu.
On Saturday the bakers will be making two sourdough specials:
Mozzarella, Oregano & Sundried Tomato
Brown Sugar Coated Apple&Raisins (soaked in orange juice)
No reservations - first come first served.
This week's lunches
Wednesday
Curry: Tarka daal with sourdough (Ve)
Thursday
Focaccia Sandwich: Lemon & Garlic marinated butter beans, pickled red onions, hot sauce hummus, rocket (Ve) optional with Feta (V)
Friday
Curry: New Potato, Cannellini bean & pea w/sourdough (Ve)
Salt beef on challah bun
Wed - Fri
Sourdough Pizza: Provolone, garlic mushrooms, parsley, chive and mozzarella (V)
Ham and cheese croissant
Tomato, spinach and cheese croissant (V)
Wed – Sat:
Sausage rolls
Vegetable rolls (V)
Lunches are made fresh weekdays for 12 noon.
Our menu for the week — with ingredients and allergens — is on the website.
Cookery school classes
The following classes have spaces as of this newsletter being posted.
Loaf’s all-day classes:
Bread — Back to Basics: Sat 14 Sep, Tue, 15 Oct
Simply Sourdough: Sat 7 Sep, Sat 28 Sep, Sat 5 Oct, Sat 26 Oct
Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: Sat 12 Oct
Baking with Heritage Grains returns in autumn
Wholegrain Baking with Tom Baker: returns later this year
Haseen’s evening classes:
Lap’s all-day classes:
Sausage & Charcuterie: Sat 19 Oct
Seafood Masterclass: Sat 21 Sep
Lap’s evening classes:
Thai: returns later this year
Ramen: returns later this year
Dumplings: returns later this year
Knife Skills: returns later this year
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.
Thanks for all your continued support.
See you next week!
Dave, Molly, Neil, Mina, Michael, Rach, Pete, Martha & Dorit
Address: 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL - map
Website: loaf.coop
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