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)
In the news
There were a couple of pieces in the press we think are worth your attention.
Britain’s bitter bread battle: what a £5 sourdough loaf tells us about health, wealth and class. A nicely detailed look at the state of commercial bread baking in the UK that covers a lot of the Real Bread Campaign points. It does draw a binary between cheap industrial loaves and artisanal sourdough implying there's no middle ground, which is exactly where Loaf wants to be with our Stirchley Loaf. They shoulda got in touch. Speaking of which...
I tried the bakery in 'best' Birmingham suburb with £1 delicacy and the queue was out the door. At the tail end of the blurt of press coverage Stirchley received this month is this lovely report on a visit to our bakery. It's hard to know how we come across to first-time visitors – if we're being seen how we want to be seen – and we're very happy with Emily Chaplin's first impressions. Come again!
This week's lunches
Wednesday
Curry: Tarka daal with sourdough (Ve)
Thursday
Soup: White bean & leek chowder with sourdough (Ve)
Friday
Curry: Sweet potato, chickpea & spinach harissa stew with sourdough (Ve)
Salt beef on challah bun
Wed - Fri
Sourdough pizza: Roasted squash, red onion, ricotta & 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:
Rosemary, garlic and thyme
Chocolate marble
No reservations - first come first served.
Cookery school classes
The following classes have spaces as of this newsletter being posted.
Dates in bold have just been released!
Loaf’s all-day classes:
Bread — Back to Basics: Tue 16 Apr
Simply Sourdough: returns in May
Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: returns in May
Baking with Heritage Grains returns in summer
Wholegrain Baking with Tom Baker: Sat 25 May
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, Wed 22 May
Dumplings: Wed 3 Apr, Tue 23 Apr, Tue 21 May
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!
Dave, Molly, Neil, Mina, Michael, Rach, Pete, Martha, Sarah & Dorit
Address: 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL - map
Website: loaf.coop
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