How PikaBox worksSee it.
See it.
Choose how.
Have it tonight.
Every dish you see on PikaBox comes with the ways to make it yours tonight: cook it, get the kit, order it from a neighbour, or bring a chef home. You pick. We handle the rest.
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★ 4.8 from 12,000 Nairobi kitchens
2.1 million dishes cooked with PikaBox
2.1 million dishes cooked with PikaBox
1 · See it2 · Choose how3 · Tonight
Coast-style pilau, 4 ways
Cook · Kit · Neighbour · Chef
Three steps
From your screen to your table, in an evening.
1
See something good
Scroll the For you feed, a friend’s Sahani, a hotel deal or a recipe Pika picked for your fridge.
2
Choose how you’ll have it
Cook it with the kit, order it from a verified neighbour, book a chef, or grab tonight’s hotel deal.
3
Have it tonight
Track it live to your gate. Pay with M-Pesa or card. Rate it, share it, and it lands in your Sahani.
The six kitchens
Six kitchens, one box.
Each one works on its own. Together they mean there is always a way to have what you’re craving.
Recipes & cook-along
Step-by-step, hands-free cooking with timers and a voice that waits for you. Missing something? It comes as a MealKit.
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DEALS
Home Cooked
Tonight’s pots from verified neighbourhood cooks. Riders collect at the gate; you never see an address, they never see yours.
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PikaChef
A private chef in your kitchen for a date, a family Sunday or a party of twenty. Priced per guest, paid safely.
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PikaFresh
Groceries picked this morning on farms we know by name, at your door in under an hour.
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PikaSocial
A feed of real dishes from real kitchens, from Kilimani to Tokyo. Every post can be your supper.
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Meal plans
Your week cooked, with a Sunday prep list, the shopping done and challenges with cooks in 38 countries.
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A Tuesday with PikaBox
How Wanjiru got supper on by 7:40.
Four people, one nut allergy, a long day in Kilimani. Here is what an ordinary evening looks like.
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Wanjiru Kamau
Kilimani · 12-day cooking streak
4:30 · Pika suggests three ideasBased on the spinach that needs using, Amani’s allergy and what’s cooking nearby. All nut-free.
5:00 · The family votesBrian and the kids vote in the Supper vote. Coast-style pilau wins, 3 to 1.
5:10 · Two ways, one basketWanjiru cooks the pilau with a MealKit and adds Mama Akinyi’s beef stew from two streets away.
6:55 · One rider, two dropsOtis collects the stew at Mama Akinyi’s gate. PikaFresh arrives with the kit at the same time.
7:00 · Cook-along, hands-free“Pika, next.” Fifty minutes, timers running, no greasy screen.
7:40 · Supper’s onRated, shared to Sahani, and Pika remembers the family loved it.
Every kitchen, checked
ID, a mandatory food-safety course, a video kitchen check and a tasted first plate before any neighbour can order.
Paid safely, always
M-Pesa or card. Chef bookings are held by PikaBox and released only with your completion code.
Private by design
Riders collect at the cook’s gate. Buyers never see a cook’s address, cooks never see yours.
2.1Mdishes cooked
1,400verified home cooks
220private chefs
48tfood rescued
38countries cooking
Questions
Good to know.
Can’t find yours? Our team in Nairobi answers in minutes, 7am to 11pm.
Do I need the app, or can I use the website?
Both work. The website does everything the app does: browse, order, book a chef, pay with M-Pesa. The app adds hands-free cook-along, live tracking on your lock screen and your watch readings in Health.
Where does PikaBox deliver?
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