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.

Pre-order online.

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:

• Dosa: Wed 6 Mar, Wed 10 Apr

• Thaali: Wed 27 Mar, Wed 1 May

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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