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
Choc Chip Cookies (vegan)
Blondies
Orange Polenta Cake
Strawberry Crumb Cake
Anzak Cookies (vegan)
The Saturday sourdough specials are this week:
Sund-dried Tomato & Capers
Black Wheat & Honey
No reservations - first come first served.
Simply Sourdough Course
We’ve got a few places left on our next Sourdough day course, on Saturday 21st June! You will be learning all about sourdough, from feeding and keeping your starter alive through to kneading, shaping, proving and baking your sourdough loaf.
Like all courses at Loaf, it’s a hands on course and in this one you will be making a wheat sourdough and a rye sourdough. We aim to equip you with the skills to confidently make sourdough in your own home.
There will also be a chance to tour Loaf’s in-house community bakery and to stock up on any bread making equipment from our shop after the course.
Your lunch will be sourdough pizza and sides and there are refreshments available throughout the day.
Finally! Our handmade pasta course will return from July!
One of our first-ever evening classes involved making fresh pasta, and then eating the results. Phil took over running it from founder Tom but when Phil left us in 2021 we were a little too preoccupied with pandemic recovery to do a proper handover. The class returned in 2023, when Martha & Molly worked with ex-Loafer Valentina — who you’ll remember brought the authenticity to our Ragu Time pop-up in 2021 — and visited her in Italy where much food was made and consumed.
Val taught us her grandma’s way to make tortellini, filled with spinach and ricotta. Val’s partner Tommaso lent his carbonara recipe made with guanciale from our charcuterie class. Finally, there was puttanesca, a spicy tomato sauce with anchovies, capers and olives. This had been taught on our class from the beginning and Molly was keen to bring back her favourite dish. It’s an affordable sauce that goes a long way but still gives a lot of punchy flavours.
Sadly, we were only able to run a handful of classes before the demands of running the bakery and cookery school became too great and pasta class had to take another hiatus; however it was always our intention to bring handmade fresh pasta back.
Suffice to say, it was not if but when this course would return.
Fast forward to 2025 and after a number of changes to the team, we felt we were in a position to bring pasta class back! Rachel - who teaches our simply sourdough class (see above) has been in the kitchen with Molly & Valentina to master the recipes and techniques and is raring to bring back this extremely popular class.
The first evening class back will be on Wednesday 30th July, running from 6:30-9:30; full details can be found here on our website.
We are expecting this class to fill up fast and are prepared to put on more dates to meet the demand. Sign up to be notified when new dates are released using our alert list.
This week's lunches
Tuesday
Tarka Daal w/ Sourdough (Ve)
Wednesday
Salad Box: Roasted Mediterranean Veg, Grain salad, sun-dried tomato salsa, basil and mixed leaves & Sea Salt Focaccia (Ve) optional w/Goats Cheese (V)
Thursday
Focaccia Sandwich: Roasted butternut Muhammara, roasted red peppers, red cabbage, coriander & onion slaw on sea salt Focaccia (Ve) optional w/ Feta
Friday
Curry: Cherry Tomato & Lentil w/sourdough (Ve)
Salt Beef /w pickles + mustard on Challah
Tue - Fri
Sourdough Pizza: Fennel, red pepper, chilli, Goats cheese, Mozzarella and Hot Honey
Wed - Fri
Ham and cheese croissant
Vegetarian croissant (V)
Tue – 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:
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.
Bread — Back to Basics: Sat 28th June
Simply Sourdough: Sat 21st June, 26th July
Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: Sold out. More dates will be released.
Baking witHandmade Pasta – Loafh Heritage Grains More dates will be released.
Wholegrain Baking with Tom Baker: Sat 6th September
Back: Handmade Pasta: Wed 30th July
To come soon: New Jams & Preserves making course!
Haseen’s evening classes:
Lap’s all-day classes:
Sausage & Charcuterie: More dates will be released for autumn.
Seafood Masterclass: More dates will be released for autumn.
Lap’s evening classes:
Thai: Weds 24th September
Ramen: Wed 17th September
Dumplings: Tues 16th September
Knife Skills: Tues 23rd September
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!
Fliss, Neil, Mina, Rach, Pete, Dave, Dorit, Molly, Michael, Andy, Kate, Lee & Zahrah
Address: 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL - map
Website: loaf.coop
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