Dec. 3, 2024, 12:26 p.m.

This week at Loaf - 3 December 2024

Loaf bakery & cookery school

This is the weekly 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:
Tues - Fri: 12-6
Saturday: 8-1

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

DECEMBER AND XMAS OPENING TIMES 2024!

We will be open on Tuesdays 3rd and 10th December 12-6pm!

And the rest of those two weeks like usual: 

Wednesday till Friday 12-6pm 

and Saturday 8am-1pm

and then

Wednesday 18th – 12-6pm (as normal)

Thursday 19th – 12-6pm (as normal)

Friday 20th – 12-6pm (as normal)

Saturday 21st - 8am-1pm (as normal)

and

Monday 23rd – 12-6pm

Tuesday 24th (XMAS EVE) – 9-1pm (mainly pre-orders!)

CLOSED 25th – 9th January 2025

Back open Friday 10th January!

Mince Pies and bread available to pre-order!

You can preorder your bread, pastries and mince pies online for every day up to Christmas.

If they are sold out online there will be a few extras on sale in the shop each day, first come first served.

New Dates for Cookery school classes 2025!

Get your calendars out! We released new dates for all our Cookery school classes next year.

We have multiple dates for our Simply Sourdough and Bread, Back to Basics, Wholegrain, Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie, Thaali, Dosa, Dumplings, Ramen, Thai, Knife Skills & Maintenance, Seafood masterclass and Sausage & Charcuterie.

Scroll down for a full list of available dates or have a look here.

Give the gift of learning!

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

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.

Gift vouchers are valid for 2 years from the date of purchase and can only be redeemed with Loaf Cookery School courses.

Special things this week

The sweet shift is baking this week the following:

  • Pumpkin bundt (Ve)

  • plum crumble cake

  • Spiced bread pudding

  • Vegan Cookies

  • And much much more

The Saturday sourdough specials are:

  • Roast potato and thyme

  • Cranberry and walnut

    Its getting festive!

    No reservations - first come first served.

This week's lunches

Tuesday

  • Tarka Daal with Sourdough (Ve)

Wednesday

  • Soup: Sweetcorn and potato chowder w/sourdough (Ve)

Thursday

  • Soup: Spiced sweet potato and red lentil (Ve) w/ Thyme and Manchego Foccacia (V)

Friday

  • Curry: Butternut squash, chickpea and spinach curry w/ sourdough

  • Salt beef on Challah bun

Tues - Fri

  • Sourdough Pizza: Veggie N’duja, kale, basil & Mozzarella (V)

  • Ham and cheese croissant

  • Mushroom, Rocket & Cheese Croissant (V)

Tues – 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.

Veggie nduja, kale, basil + mozzarella sourdough pizza

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Cookery school classes

New dates for 2025!!

Loaf’s all-day classes:

  • Bread — Back to Basics: Sat 18th Jan, Tues 28th Jan, Sat 15th Feb

  • Simply Sourdough: Sat 11th Jan, Feb 22nd Feb

  • Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: Sat 1st Feb

  • Baking with Heritage Grains Will return in 2025.

  • Wholegrain Baking with Tom Baker: Sat 1st March

Haseen’s evening classes:

  • Dosa: Wed 12th Feb

  • Thaali: Wed 22nd Jan

Lap’s all-day classes:

  • Sausage & Charcuterie: Sat 8th Feb

  • Seafood Masterclass: Sat 25th Jan

Lap’s evening classes:

  • Thai: Thur 6th Feb

  • Ramen: Thurs 30th Jan, Thurs 27th Feb

  • Dumplings: Wed 29th Jan, Wed 26th Feb

  • Knife Skills: Wed 5th Feb

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.

Vouchers are also available on our website.

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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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