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.
Our opening hours are:
Tue - Fri: 12-6
Saturday: 8-1
Visit us at 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL (map)
Special things this week
Special sweet things this week include:
Date & Chocolate bread pudding
Linzer cookies (heritage grain!)
and some surprises!
The Saturday sourdough specials are:
Mustard, cheddar and pumpkin seeds
Fermented Oat
No reservations - first come first served.
HXB will be back soon!
Some of the lucky ones among you already had the chance to get your hands on our Hot Cross buns during the last couple of weeks. Our bakers are doing some tests at the moment to get us ready for the soon to start Easter season (yes we know - others started to sell them a few weeks after Christmas, but we try to keep them special).
Keep an eye out later this week if you can’t wait until next Tuesday (25th March) when we will officially start to sell our Hot Cross Buns. They will be ready for pre-order in our online shop as usual from Saturday afternoons for the following week.
HXBs on sale this year at Loaf: 24th March to 26th April 2025!
Shop shelves restocked with all the good local products
During the last couple of weeks we’ve got new deliveries from Jacky’s Pantry, Pip’s Hot Sauce, Arden Forest Honey, Quinton Meadows Honey and Rae Valley Apiary. The shelves in the shop are looking good again.
Marshall&Co will bring their chocolate this week too!
Next Dumpling course with Lap on 26th March!
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).
The next class at Loaf is scheduled for Wednesday 26th March 6.30-9.30pm. Look here for more details and bookings.
This week's lunches
Tuesday
Tarka Daal with sourdough (Ve)
Wednesday
Salad: Crispy Feta Potato Salad, Leek & Pea Frittata, Pickled Fennel & Greens w/ sea salt focaccia (V)
Thursday
Soup: Roasted Red Bell Pepper w/ Sourdough (Ve)
Friday
Curry: Thai Sour Orange Curry w/ Sourdough (Ve) (Fish Sauce Option)
Salt Beef on Challah
Tue - Fri
Sourdough pizza: Garlic Mushroom & Kale (V)
Wed - Fri
Ham and cheese croissant
Vegetarian 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 just been released!
Loaf’s all-day classes:
Bread — Back to Basics: Sat April 12th, 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, Sat 6th September
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 2nd April.
Ramen: Weds 30th April
Dumplings: Weds 26th March, Tues 29th April
Knife Skills: Tues 1st April
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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