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)
Bread of the week
This section was intended to highlight an unsung hero from our core range of bread, but this is a special week, so we're not doing that. We're pointing at these beauties.
It's hot cross bun season! For the next five weeks we will be baking oodles of fruity tea cakes emblazoned with white crosses.
Hand made with the finest ingredients to our own recipe they're £2 each of four for £7.
Marshalls on tour
We hope you've been enjoying the extremely good range of chocolate bars from Marshall and Co which we've stocked for the last year. Hand-made in Bournville from the finest ethically sourced beans they're quite a delight.
But they produce a much wider range than we're able to stock, including eggs for Easter, so if you're intrigued, or just want to chat about their bean to bar process, they'll be at the following foodie events:
9th March Rowheath Spring craft market
10th March Kings Heath Artisan market
16th March Harborne market
16th March jewellery quarter market St Paul’s square
17th March Bournville Green Market- New one
23rd March Birmingham chocolate 5KM at Rowheath
This week's lunches
Wednesday
Tarka daal with sourdough (Ve)
Thursday
Soup: Roasted tomato & garlic with focaccia (Ve)
Friday
Curry: Potato & green pepper with sourdough (Ve)
Salt beef on challah bun
Wed - Fri
Sourdough pizza: Artichoke, green olive, capers, lemon, garlic oil & 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.
Special things
On Saturday the bakers will be making two sourdough specials:
Sage and roasted onion
Coconut and dark chocolate
No reservations - first come first served.
Cookery school classes
The following classes have spaces as of this newsletter being posted.
Loaf’s all-day classes:
Bread — Back to Basics: Tue 16 Apr
Simply Sourdough: Sat 6 Apr
Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: Sat 20 Apr
Baking with Heritage Grains returns in summer
Wholegrain Baking with Tom Baker: returns in summer
Haseen’s evening classes:
Lap’s all-day classes:
Sausage & Charcuterie: returns in autumn
Seafood Masterclass: Sat 11 May
Lap’s evening classes:
Thai: Wed 17 Apr
Ramen: Thu 4 Apr, Wed 24 Apr
Dumplings: Wed 3 Apr, Tue 23 Apr
Knife Skills: Tue 9 Apr
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!
Michael, Sarah, Martha, Rach, Pete, Dorit, Mina, Molly, Dave & Neil
Address: 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL - map
Website: loaf.coop
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