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)
Sweets this week
Strawberry crumble cheese cake
Chocolate cinnamon bread pudding
Blueberry buckle cake
Mixed berry custard crumble cake
The Saturday sourdough specials are this week:
Ras el hanout & red onion
Cheese & thyme
No reservations - first come first served.
Deadline to apply for our Cookery school assist position ends this Sunday!
We are looking for a new member to help assist in the running of our Cookery School and get involved in our workers co-op. 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.
Learn how to make Thai food with us!
Join Loaf and expert tutor Lap-fai Lee for this exploration of Thai flavours and classic Thai home cooking.
Thailand has many world famous dishes, and rightly so – Thai food beautifully combines an often complex array of ingredients and flavours, with an emphasis on fresh, aromatic, and spicy. It’s so much more than a jar of supermarket Thai green curry sauce.
Like all Loaf courses, this Thai course is very hands-on, and throughout the evening we’ll be tasting the fruits of our labour. We’ll be making Nam Pla Ra (fermented fish relish with fresh vegetables), Pla Tort (deep fried grouper with Nam Jim sauce), Massaman beef curry and Yum Makeua Yao (smoky aubergine salad with egg).
Our next Thai course takes place on Wednesday 4th of June from 6.30pm-9.30pm.
Thank you!
…to the 200+ people who joined the SCD for the first construction party in April! You all helped to raise over £3000 for the communal living areas of our new co-operative.
And thank you to all the local businesses who contributed to the raffle: The Birmingham Bike Foundry Redbeerd bar chancers_cafe artefactprojects Cork & Cage and all of the amazing team of volunteers who made this possible, The Old Print Works for hosting, and Pied Piper Ceilidh Band + energyflow.rodeo for the best night of music.
Head to SCD’s Instagram page if you want to see more pictures of this joyful night and see you at the next one.
This week's lunches
Tuesday
Tarka Daal w/ Sourdough (Ve)
Wednesday
Focaccia Sandwich: Focaccia Sandwich: Grilled asparagus, feta, lemon, spring onion, mint pesto + watercress (V)
Thursday
Salad box: Crispy Parmesan new potatoes, Ceasar salad w/ cherry tomato focaccia (V)
Friday
Curry: Sweet potato, spinach + chickpea w/ sourdough (Ve) w/sourdough (Ve)
Salt Beef /w pickles + mustard on Challah
Tue - Fri
Sourdough Pizza: Veggie ‘nduja, 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.
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:
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: More dates will be released.
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, Pete, Dave, Dorit, Molly, Michael, Andy, Kate, Lee & Zahrah
Address: 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL - map
Website: loaf.coop
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