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)

May Day Picnic in Cotteridge Park

Join in with the fun at Cotteridge Park this Sunday (May 5th), 1-4pm. Celebrating nature & International Workers Day.

Save our Library!

Join the rally on Monday 6th May at 12pm outside the central Library, Centenary Square. Demand an end to the cuts!

Special things this week

On Saturday the bakers will be making two sourdough specials:

• Cheddar, Mustard & Pumpkin Seed

• Fig & Olive Tapanade

No reservations - first come first served.

New class dates released

We've released dates for cookery school classes in June and July. Scroll down for the full list and to book your places.

This week's lunches

Wednesday

• Curry: Tarka daal with sourdough (Ve)

Thursday

• Soup: Spring Soup with Sea Salt Focaccia (Ve)

Friday

• Curry: Butternut Squash & New Potato Massaman with sourdough (Ve)

• Salt beef on challah bun

Wed - Fri

• Sourdough pizza: Red Pepper, artichoke, black olives, basil, rocket & 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: Tue 7 May

• Simply Sourdough: Sat 1 Jun

• Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: Tue 14 May

• Baking with Heritage Grains returns in summer

• Wholegrain Baking with Tom Baker: Sat 25 May

Haseen’s evening classes:

• Dosa: Wed 8 May

• Thaali: Wed 29 May

Lap’s all-day classes:

• Sausage & Charcuterie: returns in autumn

• Seafood Masterclass: Sat 11 May

Lap’s evening classes:

• Thai: Wed 17 Apr

• Ramen: Wed 24 Apr, Wed 22 May

• Dumplings: Tue 23 Apr, Tue 21 May

• Knife Skills: returns in summer

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, Sarah & Dorit

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

Website: loaf.coop

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