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)
Learn how to use and care for your knives properly
During our Knife Skills & Maintenance class you can learn that! Starting with the basics of choosing the right knife for the right task, and keeping your knives in peak condition, expert cook Lap-fai Lee will guide you through some fantastic recipes that will enable you to learn all the essential knife skills – from deboning a chicken leg for Karaage Japanese fried chicken, chopping an onion in double-quick time, cutting lots of vegetables to make an amazing salsa, slaw and stir-fry. Next class takes place a week on 1st October from 6.30pm-9.30pm.
Prices are going up
The cost of running Loaf has gone up over the year. Everyone in our supply chain has seen costs increase and are passing that to us. We keep looking for efficiencies and savings across the business while maintaining our standards but it’s got to the point where, in order to stay in business, we’re having to put our prices up for most of our lunches and pastries and some of our breads.
You can see the prices of the core baked goods on this page.
Birmingham’s first floating takeaway pizza boat
Lola the cafe boat is taking up its work from the 27th September and will serve handmade pizza and coffee along the canal from the city centre until up to Kings Norton.
Check their calendar if you want to know when they are close by to get you neopolitan style puffy crust and softer base. Dorit and Rach had a go during Keith and Clare’s test round on Sunday and were really happy with what they got.
Special things this week
The sweets shifts have the following planned:
Plum cake
Croissant pudding with dark chocolate and marmalade
Fig, honey and mascarpone tart
Banana oat and date slice (ve)
plus our awesome brownies!
The Saturday sourdough specials are:
Date and walnut
Caramelised onion, thyme and rosemary.
No reservations - first come first served.
Local News
MAC Neighbours are looking for ten confident and curious locals to be community consultants for the Midlands Art Centre. For more information contact
Jake, Community Engagement Coordinator jake.harding@macbirmingham.co.uk or 0121 4463235
Birmingham Open Studios will take place on the weekends of 28/29th September and 5/6th October (all studios from 11am till 5pm). It allows artists and craftspeople of all levels to display their craft from their own homes or studios.
This week's lunches
Wednesday
Curry: Tarka Daal with Sourdough (Ve)
Thursday
Soup: Carrot & Orange w/ Sourdough (Ve)
Friday
Curry: Chana Saag w/ Sourdough (Ve)
Salt beef on challah bun
Wed - Fri
Sourdough Pizza: Butternut Squash, Chestnut Mushroom, Roast Garlic & Sage (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 2 Nov, Tue 19 Nov
Simply Sourdough: Sat 5 Oct, Sat 9 Nov, Sat 23 Nov
Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: Sat 16 Nov
Baking with Heritage Grains Sat 26 Oct
Wholegrain Baking with Tom Baker: will return 2025
Haseen’s evening classes:
Lap’s all-day classes:
Sausage & Charcuterie: Sat 19 Oct
Seafood Masterclass: will return soon
Lap’s evening classes:
Thai: Wed 6 Nov
Ramen: Wed 27 Nov
Dumplings: Wed 16 Oct, Tue 26 Nov
Knife Skills: Tue 1 Oct
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 soon!
Mina, Rach, Pete, Neil, Dave, Martha, Dorit, Molly & Michael
Address: 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL - map
Website: loaf.coop
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