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)
Woodland Games will be back
We all miss Artefact and are very much looking forward to moving into our new premisses with our friends from Artefact and Bike Foundry.
In the meantime, its wondeful to think that we will still be having the Woodland Games back in Stirchley this Summer!
The Woodland Games 2024 Teams Sign Up is now officially open!
To sign your team up go to their website or email them at hipkissandgraney@outlook.com.
The Games themselves will be on Saturday 17th August!
Community e‑cargo bike hire project by Birmingham Bike Foundry
Replacing unnecessary car journeys with an electric-cargo bike can save money, reduce traffic and air pollution and support better health. For £50 per month you can now hire an e-cargo bike, keep the bike at home for up to three months at a time and see how well it fits in with your daily routine.
Find out more information and book a bike here: www.birminghamgearshift.org
Headline- Save Our Libraries!
And because it’s just so important: Keep supporting our libraries and head to the Library Awareness Walk this Saturday 11th May if you can!
A consortium consisting of Stirchley Art Room, the Friends of Stirchley Library and Number 11 Arts are going to be holding the first in a series of Library Awareness Walks.
The walk will begin in Selly Oak, stop off at Stirchley, and finish in Druids Heath. There will be arts activities for all to get involved with along the way, including a banner-making workshop, a poetry-walk-maps workshop and readings and performances.
Special things this week
Sweets this week will be: A date & coffee cake, a lemon & poppy seed cake, a fruity crumblejack and the vegan biscoff brownie!
On Saturday the bakers will be making two sourdough specials:
Chilli, Lemon, Spring Onion, Garlic & Ginger
Pecan, Coffee, Raisin & Chocolate
No reservations - first come first served.
New class dates released
We've released dates for cookery school classes in June and July. Scroll down for the full list and to book your places.
Restock with local independents
We are expecting deliveries from Jacky’s pantry, Pip’s Hot Sauce & Arden Forest Honey during the next few days. Whoop whoop!
This week's lunches
Wednesday
Curry: Tarka daal with sourdough (Ve)
Thursday
Soup: Potato & Broccoli Soup w/Sea Salt Focaccia (Ve)
Friday
Curry: Sweet Potato, Spinach & Lentil Curry w/sourdough (Ve)
Salt beef on challah bun
Wed - Fri
Sourdough pizza: Watercress, Spring Onion, Black Olive, Chilli 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.
Cookery school classes
The following classes have spaces as of this newsletter being posted.
Loaf’s all-day classes:
Simply Sourdough: Sat 1 Jun, Sat 13th July
Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: Tue 14 May, Sat 22nd June, Sat 20th July
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:
Ramen: Wed 22 May
Dumplings: Tue 21 May
Knife Skills: returns in summer
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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