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)
Join Loaf and expert cookery tutor Lap-fai Lee for a hands-on session of Dumpling making
You will be making dumplings from scratch and then boiling, deep frying or pan frying them. Lap will tutor you through making the dough and preparing vegetarian and pork dumplings. You’ll also make crispy, deep fried dim sum style wontons (pork & prawn) and Sichuan wontons (lamb).
Like all Loaf courses it’s very hands-on and throughout the evening we’ll be tasting the fruits of our labour, you certainly won’t go home hungry!
The next class takes place on Wednesday 16th October from 6.30pm-9.30pm at Loaf in Stirchley, South Birmingham.
Residents’ Survey in Stirchley
In partnership with the Stirchley Neighbourhood Forum, resident Ian Dudfield has been running a residents' survey. He needs help and input from Stirchley residents in two ways:
1. Attending a focus group at the Stirchley Baths. An hour long and he'll bring samosas
2. Knocking on a few doors on your street or a street nearby to deliver a very short survey.
Dorit joined one of the focus groups a couple of weeks ago and thought it was a good space to exchange opinions and ideas with other residents of Stirchley.
If you can spare an hour or so of your time to help him with either of these activities, please email him at i.dudfield@gmail.com. Thank you!
Shelves restocked with Pip’s Hot Sauces
Our favourite Hot Sauce Queen Pip brought us a new delivery and we could finally get our hands on the Pink Pounder Hot Sauce: This fruity and spicy sauce is perfect for tacos, wings, burgers, or even your morning eggs. Make every meal a delicious fiesta. For every bottle sold, Pip donates £1 to Queens Heath Pride, the local independent Pride festival in Kings Heath.
Bee Marvellous
We can never get enough honey. So we were happy when Collin from Bee Marvellous reached out to us and asked if we would like to stock his honey. Sure thing!
The honey is natural and comes with wonderful floral tones, it’s pure local cold filtered honey produced in Worcestershire in the heart of the English countryside.
Special things this week
The Saturday sourdough specials are:
Rosemary and Olive
Fig and Almond
No reservations - first come first served.
This week's lunches
Wednesday
Curry: Tarka Daal with Sourdough (Ve)
Thursday
Soup: Butternut Squash, Sweet Potato and Tomato w/ sourdough (Ve)
Friday
Curry: Peanut, Chickpea, Potato and Spinach w/sourdough (Ve)
Salt beef on challah bun
Wed - Fri
Sourdough Pizza: Mozzarella, Parmesan, Cherry Tomato, Onions, Spinach & Balsamic Vinegar (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 2 Nov, Tue 19 Nov
Simply Sourdough: Sat 9 Nov, Sat 23 Nov
Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: Sat 12 Oct, Sat 16 Nov
Baking with Heritage Grains Sat 26 Oct
Wholegrain Baking with Tom Baker: will return 2025
Haseen’s evening classes:
Lap’s all-day classes:
Sausage & Charcuterie: Sat 19 Oct
Seafood Masterclass: will return soon
Lap’s evening classes:
Thai: Wed 6 Nov
Ramen: Wed 27 Nov
Dumplings: Wed 16 Oct, Tue 26 Nov
Knife Skills: will return 2025
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 soon!
Mina, Rach, Pete, Neil, Dave, Martha, Dorit, Molly & Michael, Andy, Kate, Lee & Zahrah.
Address: 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL - map
Website: loaf.coop
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