May 12, 2025, 9:04 p.m.

This week at Loaf - 12th May 2025

Loaf bakery & cookery school

This is the weekly-ish bulletin from Loaf in Stirchley, with our specials, lunches and cookery school classes.

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🍞 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:
Tue-Fri: 12-6
Saturday: 8-1

Visit us at 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL (map)

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Sweets this week

  • Cardamom and pistachio bread pudding

  • Lemon and poppyseed bundt

  • Coconut cake

  • Choc chip cookies (vegan 🍪)

  • Flapjack (vegan)

    Sneak peak at the Cardamom and pistachio bread pudding

The Saturday sourdough specials are this week:

  • Parmesan and roast potato

  • Cinnamon and raisin

    No reservations - first come first served.

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Loaf is hiring for the cookery school!

We are looking for a new member! We hope to find someone who will work mainly in our cookery school.

Applications must be received by midnight Sunday 25th May 2025. If you would like to apply please have a look at the job description here cookery school.

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This week's lunches

Tuesday

  • Tarka Daal w/ Sourdough (Ve)

Wednesday

  • Focaccia Sandwich: Roast red pepper & tomato pesto, crispy potato & Emmental cheese (V)

Thursday

  • Salad box: Farro salad, with pickled onions, radish, apple & salad leaves. Served with sea salt & herb focaccia (Ve)

Friday

  • Curry: Thai yellow curry with cauliflower, sugar snap peas & carrot w/sourdough (Ve)

  • Salt Beef /w pickles + mustard on Challah

Tue - Fri

  • Sourdough Pizza: Artichoke, chilli, garlic, basil & Mozzarella (V)

Wed - Fri

  • Ham and cheese croissant

  • Vegetarian croissant (V)

Wed – Sat:

  • Sausage rolls

  • Vegetable rolls (V)

Lunches are made fresh weekdays from 12 noon.

Our menu for the week — with ingredients and allergens — is on the website.

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Cookery school classes

The following classes have just been released!

Loaf’s all-day classes:

  • Bread — Back to Basics: Sat 28th June

  • Simply Sourdough: Sat 7th June, Sat 21st June

  • Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: Sat 14th June

  • Baking with Heritage Grains More dates will be released.

  • Wholegrain Baking with Tom Baker: Sat 31th May, Sat 6th September

Haseen’s evening classes:

  • Dosa: More dates will be released.

  • Thaali: More dates will be released.

Lap’s all-day classes:

  • Sausage & Charcuterie: More dates will be released for autumn.

  • Seafood Masterclass: More dates will be released for autumn.

Lap’s evening classes:

  • Thai: Weds 4th June

  • Ramen: More dates will be released.

  • Dumplings: Tues 3rd June

  • Knife Skills: Tues 13th May

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.

Give the gift of learning!

If you think of gifting one class but you are not sure which one would be preferred you could buy a gift voucher instead.

Our vouchers can be purchased in any value you like for redemption against future bookings. Vouchers purchased online will give you a downloadable pdf which can be emailed to the recipient directly, or to you for printing and giving to them by hand. Alternatively you can come to us and buy vouchers in the shop.

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Thanks for all your continued support.

See you soon!

Neil, Mina, Rach, Martha, Pete, Dave, Dorit, Molly, Michael, Andy, Kate, Lee & Zahrah

Address: 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL - map

Website: loaf.coop

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