This is the weekly-ish 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:
Tue - Fri: 12-6
Saturday: 8-1
Visit us at 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL (map)
Special things this week
Special sweet things this week include:
Nanaimo bar (Thank you for your lovely feedback!)
Custard tart
Banana oat & date slice
Orange polenta cake
Rhubarb financiers
Cinnamon buns
The Saturday sourdough specials are:
Roast potato, red onion & rosemary
Sun-dried tomato & green olive
No reservations - first come first served.
Learn how to make Thai food
Join Loaf and expert tutor Lap-fai Lee for this exploration of Thai flavours and classic Thai home cooking.
Thailand has many world famous dishes, and rightly so – Thai food beautifully combines an often complex array of ingredients and flavours, with an emphasis on fresh, aromatic, and spicy. It’s so much more than a jar of supermarket Thai green curry sauce.
Like all Loaf courses, this Thai course is very hands-on, and throughout the evening we’ll be tasting the fruits of our labour. We’ll be making Nam Pla Ra (fermented fish relish with fresh vegetables), Pla Tort (deep fried grouper with Nam Jim sauce), Massaman beef curry and Yum Makeua Yao (smoky aubergine salad with egg).
The next course takes place on Wednesday 2nd April evening from 6.30pm-9.30pm at Loaf.
Learn how to use and care for knives properly
Or maybe you want to start with the basics of choosing the right knife for the right task, and keeping your knives in peak condition? Then join Lap-fai Lee the evening before the Thai course for our Knife skills course.
Lap-fai 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.
The hands-on workshop lasts three hours (including eating time) and will end with a knife sharpening demonstration using a whetstone and a chance to sharpen your own knives and ask all knife related questions!
You’ll feel right at home at Loaf, and everything you learn will set you up for recreating at home with confidence!
The course takes place on Tuesday 1st April from 6.30pm-9.30pm at Loaf.
Hot Cross Buns
Last week we gave you a heads up already - now we start officially: Hot Cross Buns are back! This week we will start slowly and keep increasing the amounts over the next few weeks. HXBs will be on sale this year at Loaf: 24th March to 26th April 2025! So if you can’t get enough of them, you can still keep enjoying them the week after Eastern.
As always: You can either play it save and pre-order online four (or eight, or twelve …) or come to the shop and try your luck and buy them as single or whatever amount you like. We charge £2 each or £7 for four HXBs.
Loaf is hiring!
We are looking for 2 new members! We hope to find someone to work mainly in the shop and someone who would be able to take over the main responsibility for our office.
Applications must be received by midnight Sunday 6th April 2025. Interviews will take place by arrangement in the week beginning Monday 28th April.
If you would like to apply – have a look at the adverts and job descriptions here for the shop and here for the office – we really hope to hear from you soon!
This week's lunches
Tuesday
Tarka Daal w/ Sourdough (Ve)
Wednesday
Halloumi, Potato and Herb Frittata with Three Bean Salad and Sea Salt Focaccia (V)
Thursday
Coronation Chickpea, Pickled Onion, Baby Gem Lettuce and Bombay Mix Focaccia Sandwich (Ve)
Friday
Curry: New Potato, Spinach Curry w/ Sourdough (Ve)
Salt Beef on Challah roll
Tue - Fri
Sourdough Pizza: Buttered Leeks, Cherry Tomatoes, Rocket, Scamorza and Mozzarella (V)
Wed - Fri
Ham and cheese croissant
Vegetarian 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 just been released!
Loaf’s all-day classes:
Bread — Back to Basics: Sat April 12th, Sat 10th May
Simply Sourdough: Sat May 17th
Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: Sat 24th May
Baking with Heritage Grains Sold out at the moment. More dates will be released soon.
Wholegrain Baking with Tom Baker: Sat 31th May, Sat 6th September
Haseen’s evening classes:
Lap’s all-day classes:
Sausage & Charcuterie: More dates will be released soon.
Seafood Masterclass: Sat 26th April
Lap’s evening classes:
Thai: Weds 2nd April.
Ramen: Weds 30th April
Dumplings: Weds 26th March, Tues 29th April
Knife Skills: Tues 1st April
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.
Give the gift of learning!
If you think 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!
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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