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)
Pink Pineapple People
There will be a new monthly Queer Community Group at Dad Lane Community Association starting on Saturday 4 May, 1-3pm with boardgames & pizza.
Bike Foundry is running free courses
The Bike Foundry is running three hour courses, which are free to the participant and funded by Cycling UK. You can learn how to do a safety check on a bike, diagnose common issues, replace inner tubes and brake pads. You can book here!
Special things this week
The sweets shift are making two kinds of blondies: a malt and milk chocolate blondie and a raspberry cheesecake blondie. And there will be vegan brownies on sale every day!
On Saturday the bakers will be making two sourdough specials:
Date & Cumin
Sundried tomato & Olive
No reservations - first come first served.
New class dates released
We've released new dates for a Sourdough course in July & Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie courses in June and July.
There are still some spaces left for our Thaali course with Haseen on The 1st of May!
Scroll down for the full list and to book your places.
This week's lunches
Wednesday
Curry: Tarka daal with sourdough (Ve)
Thursday
Soup: Broccoli, pea + herb w/ sea salt focaccia (Ve)
Friday
Curry: New potato, green lentil + spinach w/sourdough (Ve)
Salt beef on challah bun
Wed - Fri
Sourdough pizza: Asparagus, spring onion, pine nuts, chilli oil, ricotta & 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: returns in summer
Simply Sourdough: Sat 1 June, Sat 13 July
Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: Tue 14 May, Sat 22 June
Baking with Heritage Grains: returns in summer
Wholegrain Baking with Tom Baker: Sat 25 May
Haseen’s evening classes:
Lap’s all-day classes:
Sausage & Charcuterie: returns in autumn
Seafood Masterclass: Sat 11 May
Lap’s evening classes:
Thai: returns in summer
Ramen: Wed 22 May
Dumplings: Tue 21 May
Knife Skills: Tue 28 May
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!
Mina, Michael, Dave, Molly, Neil, Rach, Pete, Martha, Sarah & Dorit
Address: 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL - map
Website: loaf.coop
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