This is the weekly bulletin from Loaf in Stirchley, with our specials, lunches and cookery school classes.
🍞 🥐 Pre-order your Bread and Pastries
Pre-order the bread and pastries to ensure you get what you want.
For now we have stopped taking donations for B30 Foodbank. Those who need it can still claim a free loaf from the Pay it Forward donations pot and we still donate our leftover bread to Incredible Surpluss and the B30 Foodbank at the end of each day, but for now we need to focus on raising funds to move to Stirchley Co-operative Development early next year. If you still want to make a cash donation to B30 Foodbank you can do via their website here.
Our opening hours are:
Wed-Fri: 12-6
Saturday: 8-1
Visit us at 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL (map)
Sweets This Week
Banana, Oat & Date Slice
Upside Down Banana Cake
Apple Tart
& more!
Saturday Sourdough Specials
Honey, Oat & Date
Oregano & Parmesan
No reservations - first-come, first-served.
This Week's Lunches
Wednesday
Tarka Daal with Sourdough (Ve)
Thursday
Soup: Potato, Sweetcorn & White Bean Chowder with Sourdough (Ve)
Friday
Curry: Cauliflower, Chickpea & Spinach Curry with Sourdough (Ve)
Salt Beef with Pickles + Mustard on Challah
Wed - Fri
Sourdough Pizza: Portobello & Chestnut Mushrooms, Oregano, Mozzarella & Parmesan (V)
Wed - Fri
Ham and Cheese Croissant
Rocket Pesto & Cheese Croissant (V)
Wed – Sat:
Sausage Roll
Vegetable Roll (Ve)
Lunches are made fresh weekdays from 12 noon.
Our menu for the week — with ingredients and allergens — is on the website.
Cookery School Classes
Cookery School Update
Just a reminder that these are the last of our Cookery School classes for 2025 - so if you’d like a spot, now is the time to book!
If you’re already thinking about gifts, our Cookery School Gift Vouchers make perfect Christmas presents and can be redeemed anytime in 2026, once we’re settled in our new home.
All-Day Classes with Availability:
🥖 Simply Sourdough 🥖
Saturday 22nd November 2025 9:30 - 4pm
Spend a day learning the art of sourdough where you’ll cover everything from caring for your starter to kneading, shaping, proving, and baking both wheat and rye sourdough loaves. You’ll take home your own dough to bake the next day, plus starters and full recipes to continue baking confidently at home.
🥐 Sweet Breads & Viennoiserie 🥐
Saturday 29th November 2025 9:30 - 4pm
A hands-on course exploring sweet breads and viennoiserie. You’ll learn to laminate dough and bake treats like cinnamon buns, cardamom knots, hot cross buns, croissants, pain au chocolat, danishes, and more.
🍞 Bread: Back to Basics 🍞
Saturday 6th December 2025 9:30 - 4pm
Bread: Back to Basics is a day-long bread experience. In a world where real bread is so hard to come by, this course will equip you to make consistently good, wholesome bread at home. This hands-on course takes bread back to its essential ingredients - flour, water, salt and yeast - and teaches you a great repertoire of beautiful breads based on these basic building blocks.
Evening Classes with Availability:
🍜 Ramen 🍜
Wednesday 22nd October 2025 6:30–9:30pm
A workshop with Lap-fai Lee that dives deep into the art of broth, noodles, toppings, and seasoning. Expect rich flavours, smart technique, and the know‑how to recreate at home.
🍝 Handmade Pasta 🍝
Wednesday 5th November 2025 6:30-9:30pm
Wednesday 26th November 2025 6:30-9:30pm
This course will teach you the skills to make fresh pasta at home, with fillings and sauces to accompany it. We will be showing you both hand rolling and cutting techniques as well as using a pasta machine. Recipes include a making fresh egg pasta to pair with classic sauces. We will make a classic carbonara, puttanesca and tortillini filled with ricotta and spinach.
🥘 Thaali 🥘
Tuesday 18th November 2025 6:30–9:30pm
Join Chef Haseen and learn the secrets of another Indian speciality - Thaali - popular in India, Nepal, Fiji, Sri Lanka, Mauritius and Singapore. A hands-on workshop where you can feast on all the dishes you make family-style, so arrive hungry!
Coming Soon:
New Jams & Preserves Course (2026)
Booking Info:
All equipment, recipes, aprons & refreshments provided.
Please check the individual class restrictions for dietary requirements and allergies, and get in touch with any queries.
Spaces are limited and booked on a first-come, first-served basis upon receipt of payment. We require 100% payment in advance for all of our courses.
🎄 Operation Mincemeat is Underway! 🎄
On Monday the big task of preparing the mincemeat for our Mince Pies began - a process which includes lots of juicing, weighing, zesting and mixing, and some very heavy lifting to get the finished mix into the freezer!
Big thanks to our Stirchley neighbours Attic Brew Co who gave us some Nitro Stout to use in the mixture!
This year we’ll have vegan mince pies available too thanks to the success of making our veggie rolls vegan.
You’ll be able to buy our Mince Pies at the start of December (or the weekend before if the festive mood takes us 🎅). We will be sure to let everyone know via this newsletter and our socials when it’s go time!
Support our Crowdfunder!
A Huge Thank You! 💛
We’ve been absolutely blown away by your support - in less than two weeks, we’ve already reached 33% of our £25,000 target! Your generosity and enthusiasm mean the world to us.
There’s still a way to go - 67% to reach our goal - so please keep spreading the word and sharing our campaign with anyone who might want to get involved.
Gift Vouchers
Give the Gift of Learning!
If you’re thinking 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!
Kate, Dorit, Michael, Dave, Oli, Fliss, Rach, Neil, Molly, Mina & Pete
Address: 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL - map
Website: loaf.coop
Updates on: Instagram
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