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:
(Dave’s) Danish dream cake
Rhubarb cheese cake
Hot Cross Bun Pudding
Vegan brownies
Red velvet blondies
Cookies 🍪 🍪 🍪
Hot Cross Buns - pre-order here or come to the shop.
The Saturday sourdough specials are:
Cheddar and apple
Olive tapenade
No reservations - first come first served.
Bread: Back to Basics
Our course ‘Bread: Back to Basics’ is a day-long bread experience. In a world where real bread is so hard to come by, this course will equip you to make consistently good, wholesome bread at home. This hands-on course takes bread back to its essential ingredients – flour, water, salt and yeast – and teaches you a great repertoire of beautiful breads based on these basic building blocks.
Good bread is best made slowly, so throughout the course you’ll be introduced to techniques for building superior flavour, texture, nutrition, and keeping quality into your bread using the best ingredient around: time.
This is a hands on course, and Loaf will share tips and techniques throughout the day. You’ll learn everything from which ingredients and equipment to use, and arm you with all the tools and confidence to bake at home. There’ll be plenty to take home at the end of the day to share (or keep to yourself!)
The next course takes place on Saturday 12th April, starts promptly at 9.30am and finishes around 4pm.
Come and support our future home!
Stirchley Co-operative Development (SCD) and ARTEFACT warmly invite you to a ceilidh and dance — featuring The Pied Piper Band, Edinburgh’s all-trans, fashion-forward ceilidh band — for a night at The Old Print Works in Balsall Heath.
For those of you who don’t know, this is the first of our Construction Parties — and they want to make it a big one. All the money raised will go toward communal spaces like laundries, gardens, and halls.
They’ve got some exciting things lined up:
📯 The Pied Piper Band will be leading through the ceilidh dances
🍻 Drinks will be available all night
🪩 A selection of DJs will keep the party going long after the ceilidh wraps up (dancing till late!)
🫶 And of course, many opportunities to support our beloved SCD — so come ready to celebrate and show some love!
Details:
🗓️ 26th April
🏫 Old Print Works, Balsall Heath
🎟️ Solidarity tickets: £8 / £15 / £20
Doors open at 7pm
If you’ve been craving some joy, community, and a chance to let loose — this is it.
All are welcome.
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 (next Sunday!). 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
Puy lentil + roasted tomato salad w/ Sea Salt Focaccia (VE) optional Gorgonzola (V)
Thursday
Spanakopita w/ Greek salad (V)
Friday
Curry: Curry: Roast cauliflower + new potato w/ Sourdough (Ve)
Salt Beef on Challah roll
Tue - Fri
Sourdough Pizza: Olives, capers, chilli oil, basil, Ricotta + 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, Weds 14th May
Ramen: Weds 30th April
Dumplings: Tues 29th April
Knife Skills: Tues 13th 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.
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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