Loaf Bakery and Cookery School
Loaf is a proudly co-operative-run bakery and cookery school based in Stirchley, South Birmingham since 2009. We aim to build community through real food and healthy living in Birmingham. Our bread and pastries are freshly baked on site along with hearty lunches for the workers of Stirchley, while next door we teach bread-making and cookery skills.
Why are we popping up rather than baking from our usual home?
Our move into the Stirchley Co-operative Development has been delayed while construction work goes on (and on …. and on…). So for now, Loaf is living its best nomadic bakery life as we bring bread, sweet buns and other treats to markets and pop-ups instead.
LOAF teamed up with Redditch based bakery STEAMHOUSE and Stirchley’s newcomer Anosh Speciality Coffee at 1475 Pershore Road – (during later hours Dead Beat!) to serve hot and cold lunches to takeaway, freshly baked sourdough, focaccia, cinnamon and cardamom buns and other goodies. You can pre-order for here.
Will our cookery school return?
YES! As soon as we have a completion date for the new building, we will be putting all our courses online for the next few months. If you want to be first to hear about new cookery school dates, make sure you are signed up to our newsletter or cookery school alert list!
Thank you all so much for your support since we announced we will have to be closed for longer than we anticipated. All the local businesses that have offered to give us kitchen space and the generous donations to our Crowdfunder mean the world to us.
If you’re able to help, you can do so by buying cookery school gift vouchers for future courses in our new building, sharing and donating to our crowdfunder
Thank you for being part of Loaf – we couldn’t do this without you 💛
Loaf team on the construction site
Cookery School
Our cookery school is the heart of Loaf. Learn to bake the Loaf way, plus evening and masterclasses from guest chefs.
About our coursesOur Bakery
We proudly bake fresh bread daily from the simplest ingredients, plus pastries, cakes and more! Order online for collection or just come by and see what we have.
Order your breadLunches
We make curry, soup, pizza, sausage & vegetable rolls and more in our kitchen, Wednesday to Friday, fresh from 12pm to takeaway.
Lunch menu for this weekLoaf bread vouchers
Our cute bread vouchers can each be exchanged for a fresh loaf of bread. The perfect gift for the sourdough fan in your life.
More info and ordersNews from Loaf
- Christmas 2024!
Its here again! December is upon us and we are getting ready for the next few weeks. We have our famous mince pies ( both butter and vegan) which will be for sale everyday throughout December alongside… Read more: Christmas 2024! - Cookery school vouchers and an explanatory leaflet
Our cookery school vouchers sell so well that we often forget to promote them, but not at this time of year! Please consider giving the gift of a future food learning experience this Winterval by visiting this… Read more: Cookery school vouchers and an explanatory leaflet - For all your baking needs…
We sell all the equipment you need to bake bread in your own home, from proving baskets to bread tins to wooden peels. See our equipment range. Along with flour you’d expect to find in a bakery,… Read more: For all your baking needs… - Local produce made locally by local people
Over the last couple of years we’ve been increasing the range and availability of locally produced foodstuffs that go well with a nice slice of bread. We’re proud to say this is now a significant part of… Read more: Local produce made locally by local people - Aprons, totes and tea towels, oh my!
We had our delivery from our screenprinters Do Make Say Ink of some lovely items designed by Molly. The headline is we finally, after talking about it for years, have a Loaf apron! Made from organic cotton… Read more: Aprons, totes and tea towels, oh my! - Bear Eats now on the shelves at Loaf
We’re always looking for new local foodstuffs that go well with our bread, and were quite impressed with these chilli jams from Bear Eats who use them in the dishes they sell at food markets around town.… Read more: Bear Eats now on the shelves at Loaf - New cooperative klaxon! 🚨Congratulations to the newest cooperatively-run enterprise on the block! York Supplies was successful in its share offer, raising £250,000 from the local community to buy this much-loved local business from its retiring owners. As you may know there… Read more: New cooperative klaxon! 🚨
- Congratulations to Rea Valley Apiary!
We popped along to the Birmingham Beekeepers show at Winterbourne this weekend and happened to catch the awards ceremony where Sharif Khan – whose Rea Valley honey we stock in our bakery shop – won nearly all… Read more: Congratulations to Rea Valley Apiary! - Kids Snack Packs report
At the start of the summer break we announced our plan to prepare packs of snacks for kids whose families were struggling with the cost of living in the holidays and asked you for donations. We had… Read more: Kids Snack Packs report - So long and thanks for all the honey, Gareth
If you’re a long-time patron of Loaf you’ll remember when we only stocked one local honey from ‘G Francis’ and might be wondering when they’ll be back on the shelves. After many years of beekeeping and supplying… Read more: So long and thanks for all the honey, Gareth