This is the weekly-ish 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.
Loaf will be open as usual on Eastern
Our opening hours are:
Tue - Fri: 12-6
Saturday: 8-1
Visit us at 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL (map)
Don’t forget to pre-order your Hot Cross Buns in advance this week if you want to be save to get some. We bake as many as possible, but the last years showed they still sell out quickly.
And you probably know this already, but Hot Cross Buns should actually be eaten from Eastern and not in the weeks before - that’s why we decided to bake more after Eastern. So if you can’t get enough of them (or just like sticking to the rules), you can still enjoy them the week after Eastern (until the end of next week, Saturday 26th April)! Pre-orders for that week will go online as usual from Saturday afternoon.
Sweets this week
Peanutbutter and dark choc cookie sandwiches (vegan)
Raspberry & cherry Lamingtons (with gelatine)
Espresso & dark choc blondie
Banana and Biscoff blondie
Roast strawberry and lemon tray-bake
Salted caramel rye brownie
Red berry cheesecake
Vanilla cheesecake
The Saturday sourdough specials are:
Marmite & Pumpkin Seed
No reservations - first come first served.
Learn during one of our evening classes how to make Dumplings with our tutor Lap-fai Lee
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!
You’ll feel right at home at Loaf, and everything you learn will set you up for recreating at home with confidence!
Our next course takes place on Tuesday 29th April from 6.30pm-9.30pm. You can get more information and book on our website.
Thank you from the Foodbank
Christine from the Volunteer Team B30 and South Birmingham Foodbank sent us a lovely email to thank us and our customers for our bread donations in February. Our continued support for their work in the local community really means a lot to them and their customers and is one of the reasons why all of our team work at Loaf.
Little reminder to get your ticket for the ceilidh co-op foundraiser
Stirchley Co-operative Development (SCD) and ARTEFACT warmly invite you to the first of our Construction Parties — and they want to make it a big one. All the money raised will go toward communal spaces like laundries, gardens, and halls.
Details:
📯 The Pied Piper Band will be leading through the ceilidh dances
🍻 Drinks will be available all night
🪩 A selection of DJs will keep the party going long after the ceilidh wraps up (dancing till late!)
🫶 And of course, many opportunities to support our beloved SCD — so come ready to celebrate and show some love!
🗓️ 26th April
🏫 Old Print Works, Balsall Heath
🎟️ Solidarity tickets: £8 / £15 / £20
Doors open at 7pm
This week's lunches
Tuesday
Tarka Daal w/ Sourdough (Ve)
Wednesday
Focaccia sandwich: Kadai Paneer, mint chutney and spinach on sea salt focaccia. (V)
Thursday
Soup: Pea, mint + spring onion soup w/ parmesan focaccia (vegan option available)
Friday
Curry: Rajma Masala curry w/ sourdough (Ve) optional with butter (V)
Salt Beef /w pickles + mustard on challah
Tue - Fri
Sourdough Garlic bread pizza w/ cherry toms, onion & 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.
Cookery school classes
The following classes have just been released!
Loaf’s all-day classes:
Bread — Back to Basics: Sat 10th May
Simply Sourdough: Sat May 17th
Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: Sat 24th May
Baking with Heritage Grains Sold out at the moment. More dates will be released soon.
Wholegrain Baking with Tom Baker: Sat 31th May
Haseen’s evening classes:
Lap’s all-day classes:
Sausage & Charcuterie: More dates will be released soon.
Seafood Masterclass: Sat 26th April
Lap’s evening classes:
Thai: Weds 14th May
Ramen: Weds 30th April
Dumplings: Tues 29th April
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.
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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