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)

Summer shutdown next month

It’s time time of year when we close the bakery for a couple of weeks in August. Sales always slow in the summer as people go on holiday and it gives us a chance to clear some holiday allowance, get some essential maintenance done and get everything ready for a busy Autumn term and Christmas period.

Our last day of trading will be Saturday 10 August. We’ll be open again from Wednesday 28 August.

If you have capacity in your freezer, now’s the time to start stocking up! Place your pre-orders on the website.

The Woodland Games are back!

Long-time friends of Loaf Jonny and Dale are bringing their now-annual Woodland Games back to Hazelwell Park next month!

An irreverent nature-themed day of games art and music, last year saw a costume parade, team “sports” and magnificent trebuchets.

Everyone is welcome to get involved. More details on the website. (And Loaf are catering food for the volunteers!)

Special things this week

We had a request from Molly’s neighbour to make something new this week - Nanaimo bars, a Canadian delicacy. We’re all excited to see how they come out!

There’ll also be a miso millionaires shortbread and, “for the vegans”, a banana, oat and date slice. Yum!

(Check our Instagram stories to see if they’re on sale.)

The Saturday sourdough specials are:

• Honey wheat

• Olive and sundried tomato

No reservations - first come first served.

This week's lunches

Wednesday

• Curry: Tarka daal with sourdough (Ve)

Thursday

• Salad Box: Ciabatta Panzanella & roast mediterranean veg (olives, cucumber, tomato, leaf, herbs) (Ve) w/ optional feta (V)

Friday

• Curry: mushroom, chickpea and coconut w/ sourdough (Ve)

• Salt beef on challah bun

Wed - Fri

• Sourdough Pizza: Four cheese (cheddar, ricotta, parmesan & 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: Sat 14 Sep

• Simply Sourdough: Sat 7 Sep, Sat 28 Sep, Sat 5 Oct, Sat 26 Oct

• Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: Sat 12 Oct

• Baking with Heritage Grains returns in the autumn

• Wholegrain Baking with Tom Baker: returns in the autumn

Haseen’s evening classes:

• Dosa: returns in the autumn

• Thaali: returns in the autumn

Lap’s all-day classes:

• Sausage & Charcuterie: Sat 19 Oct

• Seafood Masterclass: Sat 21 Sep

Lap’s evening classes:

• Thai: returns in the autumn

• Ramen: Wed 11 Sep

• Dumplings: returns in the autumn

• Knife Skills: returns in the autumn

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!

Dorit, Molly, Michael, Martha, Neil, Rach, Pete, Mina & Dave

Address: 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL - map

Website: loaf.coop

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