We’re currently looking for a full time co-op member who can bake real bread and be a good member of our small team. We’re looking for someone with professional baking experience, and who shares the values of Loaf. You can see the whole job advert on our jobs page (click here!) and download the job description. Application deadline is 5pm on Monday 16th February.  Good luck!

We’re currently looking for a full time co-op member who can bake real bread and be a good member of our small team. We’re looking for someone with professional baking experience, and who shares the values of Loaf. You can see the whole job advert on our jobs page (click here!) and download the job description. Application deadline is 5pm on Monday 16th February.  Good luck!

After the success of our first Stirchley-on-Sea event in November, we’re at it again at the end of January, taking a distinctly North Atlantic theme this time with some great Scandiwegian dishes on offer. As before it’ll be casual eat-in at the bakery, or takeaway if you prefer (but why not come and enjoy the atmosphere?!). You can bring a bottle too, we recommend Stirchley Wines and Spirits just down the road. Check out the menu below, please feel free to share widely. Thanks once again to Kerry Leslie for a top notch flyer.

Lucky you!!

We’re on holidays until the 2nd January, but please browse all our courses in the cookery school shop, make a note of which course you’d like to do, and send us an email (cookeryschool@loafonline.co.uk), and we’ll process the booking when we get back. Voucher codes do not work on the online system so you must send us an email to make your booking. We are fairly well sold out January – March, but we are holding places back for voucher holders from April onwards, so do let us know as soon as possible what course you’d like to do.

Here’s some great courses in January, February, and March with spaces (at time of writing), that may take your fancy:

15th January – Flavour Geography: Japan. £60pp. A great evening exploring Japanese home cooking with Lap-fai Lee.

27th January – Butchery: Perfect Poultry. £70pp. Learn the butchery basics and eat six fantastic chicken dishes with organic Bournville butcher Steve Rossiter.

3rd February – Knife Skills and Maintenance. £50pp. Learn how to chop like a pro, keep your knives in great condition, and pare a pair of pears. With Lap-fai Lee.

25th February – Seafood Two: Shellfish. £80pp. Lobster, crabs, razor clams, squid. Need we say more? Another great course with The Foodist – Lap-fai Lee.

7th March – Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie. £110pp. All day hands-on exploration of croissants, pain au raison, pain au chocolat, brioche, chelsea buns and more!

21st or 26th March – Bread: Back to Basics. £110pp. All day course mastering the basics of bread making from white boules to focaccia to brioche. Our most popular course!

On Wednesday we will be welcoming back Nick from Curds & Whey once again for ‘Bread & Cheese Christmas Eve’. Nick will be setting up his stall in the cookery school, next door to the bakery, and will be operating from 8.15am-12pm, the same hours as the bakery. You can pre-order your cheese by downloading the form below and phoning or emailing him with your order by Saturday  20th December. We hope to see you on Christmas eve for lots of loverly bread and cheese….

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We’re really pleased to announce a brand new collaboration with Lap-fai Lee, the excellent tutor on our seafood, charcuterie, and knife skills courses. From Janaury 2015, Lap will be starting a series of Flavour Geography courses which will look at traditional home cooking in many parts of the world. We’re starting with Flavour Geography: Japan on Thursday 15th January from 6.30-9.30pm. In this hands-on workshop you’ll learn how to make sushi rolls, sashimi, nasu degaku, tonkatsu, and miso soup, and then sit down to a Japanese family meal at the end of the night. It’d make a great unusual Christmas present for the keen cook in your life, and why not look at the Japanese section on souschef.co.uk for something suitable to go along with it. You can book online fore the 15th January by clicking here.

 

 

…and we have plenty! Courses are on sale for January – April 2015, and you can book a place and request a voucher, or simply buy a cash gift voucher of any value, and your lucky recipient has 12 months in which to choose any of our courses to come on. Click on the image below to be taken to our online shop, where you can buy our courses and vouchers. Cash vouchers are also available over the counter in our bakery. We’re posting out vouchers until the 2oth December, and on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th (before 12 noon) we can send you a pdf voucher by email, or you can pop into the shop to get one Merry Christmas!

 

Here they are!

Monday 22nd Dec – Closed

Tuesday 23rd Dec – 12pm-6.30pm ***pre-order your stollen now to collect today***

Wednesday 24th Dec – 8.15am-12pm ***pre-order your stollen now to collect today***

Thursday 25th Dec – Friday 2nd January – Closed

Saturday 3rd January 2015 – 8.15-1pm

Tuesday 6th January onwards – 12-6.30pm Tues-Fri, 8.15-1pm Sat, Closed Sun & Mon.

We’ve got Chocolate (& Cinnamon) Babka for sale at Stirchley market right now (Tuesday 2nd Dec)!! One of our twitter friends @nedtrifle shared this great Seinfeld clip with us:

It is the 1st week in December – we will be starting mince pie’s this week – deep filled Mud City Stout mince pies, featuring Lord Derby apples from Ryton Organic Gardens in Warwickshire. Come down and check them out!

Tuesday 2nd December: Tarka daal with a hunk of bread // Ham and cheddar croissants

Wednesday 3rd: Stonebaked sourdough pizza! Stirchley meat feast // Roasted pepper, fennel, and mozzarella

Thursday 4th: Salt beef and mustard on challah // Roasted aubergine and harissa humous sandwich

Friday 5th: Leek and stilton frittata // Ham and cheddar croissants

Look forward to seeing you!

This is worth a mention as it’s the last smoke night of 2014 at our friends Peel & Stone Bakery, and one of cookery teachers Lap-fai Lee is at the helm in the kitchen. This Wednesday from 6.45pm, here’s the menu:

Smoked nuts, scratchings, andouille

Jerk babyback ribs and wings, dirty rice and peas, slaw, bacon cornbread

Smoked cardomom flan

You have to book tickets in advance: https://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/tickets/smoke-and-the-city/10034103