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)
We’re back!
Thank you for you patience over the last fortnight. We’ve had a good recouperation ready for the busy months ahead, and Loaf itself had a thorough deep clean right into all the nooks and crannies.
Opening hours are back to normal: we’ll see you from 12 noon Wednesday – Friday and 8am Saturday morning.
Temporary LTN in place in Stirchley
Most of you will know there are major roadworks happening on Pershore Road outside our new building. This peaks this week with a full road closure from 9am to 3:30pm.
While this won’t affect most of you, a few of our customers do need to drive and we’re happy to say access to Loaf by from the south is unimpeded and, looking out today, there seems to be more parking available than usual. You just need to allow a bit more time to get here if you’re coming from the north.
Those coming by bus will need to get off at either end of the high street at Cartland Road or Fordhouse Lane.
The usual chaos that passes for Birmingham’s integrated transport strategy will be back next week.
Autumn classes with Lap scheduled
The following evening classes with Lap-fai Lee have gone on sale this last week.
Knife Skills: Tue 1 Oct
Dumplings: Wed 16 Oct, Tue 26 Nov
Thai: Wed 6 Nov
Ramen: Wed 27 Nov
All our cookery school classes are listed further down this email.
Special things this week
The sweets shifts have the following planned:
Jamaican sticky ginger cake
Butterscotch banana bread
Vegan brownies
Vegan choc chip cookies
Cinnamon bread pudding
Banana pecan cookies
And there’s more to come so check our Instagram stories to see exactly what’s on sale each day.
The Saturday sourdough specials are:
Parmesan and pine nut
Fig and fennel
No reservations - first come first served.
This week's lunches
Wednesday
Curry: Tarka daal with sourdough (Ve)
Thursday
Salad Box: Giant couscous, roasted pepper, cherry tomato & pickled red onions, w/herb focaccia (Ve) with optional feta cheese (v)
Friday
Curry: Roasted cauliflower, chickpea & spinach w/sourdough (Ve)
Salt beef on challah bun
Wed - Fri
Sourdough Pizza: Courgette, caramelised red onions, chilli & 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, Tue 15 Oct
Simply Sourdough: Sat 5 Oct
Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: Tue 17 Sep
Baking with Heritage Grains Sat 26 Oct
Wholegrain Baking with Tom Baker: returns in the autumn
Haseen’s evening classes:
Lap’s all-day classes:
Sausage & Charcuterie: Sat 19 Oct
Seafood Masterclass: Sat 21 Sep
Lap’s evening classes:
Thai: Wed 25 Sep, Wed 6 Nov
Ramen: Wed 11 Sep, Wed 27 Nov
Dumplings: Tue 10 Sep, 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, Pete, Dave, Molly, Rach, Martha, Michael, Neil & Dorit
Address: 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL - map
Website: loaf.coop
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