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)
Sweets this week
Orange Polenta Cake
Banana Oat & Date Slice
Pain au Chocolate & Orange Pudding (made with with orange marmalade from Jacky’s Pantry)
Custard Tart
The Saturday sourdough specials are:
Fermented Oat Porridge
Fig & Hazelnuts
No reservations - first come first served.
New dates for courses!
We’ve scheduled a few new classes for June. Have a look if you want to join us and learn about:
Loaf is hiring for the cookery school!
We are looking for another new member! We hope to find someone to work mainly in our cookery school.
Applications must be received by midnight Sunday 25th May 2025. If you would like to apply please have a look at the job description here for the cookery school.
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).
Our next class takes place on Wednesday 14th June from 6.30pm-9.30pm.
Special recommendation for the Flat Pack Festival
Andy Howlett, who you might know from serving you in our shop (or from one of his many art projects), wrote a very interesting article for the Birmingham Dispatch about his journey to finally find a now 75-year-old reel of celluloid that Andy had been hunting down for years.
The movie Time Flower itself will be shown this Saturday as part of the Flat Pack Festival along with an interview with Desmond Morris filmed by Andy in Kildare last year, and a guest talk by Silvano Levy, expert on British surrealism and author of a number of books on Morris and his work.
This week's lunches
Tuesday
Tarka Daal w/ Sourdough (Ve)
Wednesday
Vegetarian Ploughman’s Box - Mini Loaf Vegetarian Roll, Cheddar, house pickled onions, apple, herb and seed scone & green salad (V0
Thursday
Frittata: Sun-dried tomato, red pepper and Feta Frittata w/ Mediterranean leaf salad, crispy chickpeas & baguette (V)
Friday
Curry: Sweet potato, Aubergine and Chickpea Coconut Curry w/ sourdough (Ve)
Salt Beef /w pickles + mustard on Challah
Tue - Fri
Sourdough Pizza: Sourdough Pizza: Margarita with olives & basil (V)
Wed - Fri
Ham and cheese croissant
Vegetarian croissant (V)
Wed – Sat:
Sausage rolls
Vegetable rolls (V)
Lunches are made fresh weekdays from 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 10th May, Sat 28th June
Simply Sourdough: Sat May 17th, Sat 7th June, Sat 21st June
Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: Sat 14th June
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: More dates will be released soon.
Lap’s evening classes:
Thai: Weds 14th May
Ramen: More dates will be released soon.
Dumplings: Tues 3rd June
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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