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Everything food,
and so much more!

PikaBox is everything food: home-cooked meals from verified cooks, private chefs, flash meals from top hotel kitchens, fresh groceries and MealKits, recipes you can cook along with, and Pika, your AI food assistant.

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Now in Nairobi

Everything food,
and so much more!

PikaBox is everything food: home-cooked meals from verified cooks, private chefs, flash meals from top hotel kitchens, fresh groceries and MealKits, recipes you can cook along with, and Pika, your AI food assistant.
Download on theApp StoreGet it onGoogle Play
Or use PikaBox on the web
Home cooked, near you
Pots open from late afternoon
  • M-Pesa paymentsPay the way you already do
  • Verified cooks and chefsChecked before they cook for you
  • Live trackingFollow your order to your door
  • Allergen honestyAllergens declared, swaps never sneak one in

Everything PikaBox does

Cook it, order it, have it made.

One app for every way Nairobi eats: tonight, this week and every day after. Here is the whole menu.

  1. Home CookedTonight’s pots from verified home cooks near you, brought hot to your door.
  2. Pika ChefA private chef at yours. Ask for a quote; your payment is held until the dinner.
  3. Flash mealsNairobi’s top hotel kitchens, opened for you for a few hours each evening.
  4. Pika FreshGroceries and MealKits in a delivery slot you choose, with a picker you can chat to.
  5. Recipes & cook-alongStep-by-step cook-alongs with timers, shared cook-sessions and Little chefs for kids.
  6. PikaYour AI food assistant. Plans the week, fills the basket and respects your allergies.
  7. Meal plans & challengesPlans for your goals, swaps when you want them, and challenges with streaks.
  8. PikaBox HealthWellness insights from your phone’s health data, only with your consent.
  9. Pika SocialSahani, reels, Circles and Tables: a meal at a host’s home. Every dish is one tap from yours.
  10. Safety & trustAllergy-safe by default, M-Pesa payments, live tracking, support and SOS.

Flash meals

Nairobi’s top kitchens, opened for you.

Each evening, the city’s finest hotel kitchens share a few of their best plates for a few hours. Reserve in the app, then collect at the desk with your code or have it brought to your door.

  • Buffet meals, patisserie boxes and the chef’s special from top hotel kitchens
  • Reserve with M-Pesa, then collect at the desk with your code or have it delivered
  • Every offer is reviewed by PikaBox before it goes on sale
See tonight’s flash mealsRun a hotel kitchen? Open it here
Home Cooked in the app: Mama Akinyi’s kitchen, kitchen-checked, with tonight’s pot
Home CookedPots open from late afternoon

Home Cooked

Real kitchens, ready tonight.

A Nairobi home cook puts a pot on this afternoon. You order a plate, and a PikaBox rider collects it, sealed, at her gate.

A four-hour freshness clockEvery plate is cooked today and goes from pot to plate within four hours.

  • Every cook is ID-checked and passes a food-safety course before her kitchen opens
  • Allergens declared on every dish, so you know what is in your plate
See pots near youCook at home? Sell your pot

PikaChef

A private chef, at your table.

Dinner for two, a birthday for twenty, a cooking lesson or a week of meal prep. A vetted chef cooks in your kitchen and leaves it as she found it.

Find a chefAre you a chef? Get booked
A chef’s profile in PikaChef: ID, hygiene and kitchen checked, with her signature menus
On the night: the chef is cooking, with the guests’ allergies shown at the top
  1. Chefs pass a tasting, ID and hygiene checks before they can be booked
  2. Book a menu or ask for a quote, priced per guest
  3. Your payment is held by PikaBox and released only after the dinner
A MealKit in PikaFresh: Coast pilau, with every ingredient in the box
PikaFresh in the app: your week, cooked, with the things running low ready to restock

PikaFresh

The market, at your door.

Fresh produce, the pantry and MealKits with every ingredient for a recipe, picked by a person you can chat to and delivered in the slot you choose.

  • Fresh produce
  • The pantry
  • MealKits
  • Your delivery slot
  • A picker you can chat to
  • Your picker messages you before swapping anything, and never swaps in a new allergen
  • Turn a recipe or your week’s meal plan into a basket in one tap
Shop PikaFresh

Recipes & cook-along

Cook along, one step at a time.

Every recipe becomes a cook-along: one step on screen, the timer already running, and the ingredients a tap away on PikaFresh.

Browse recipesCooking with kids? Little chefs
Cook-along in the app: one step at a time over the dish, with the screen kept awake
  • Timers that run themselvesEvery step that needs one starts its own timer.
  • Shared cook-sessionsStart on the tablet, carry on from your phone.
  • Little chefsKids’ recipes to cook together, safe by stage.

Pika, your AI food assistant

Just ask Pika.

Pika plans, compares and fills the basket across everything PikaBox does, in English or Sheng. It knows your household’s allergies, and it never pays or books without your tap.

Meet Pika
PikaKnows your household · Sheng ok

You: Plan my week. Lighter dinners, Brian’s late on Tuesday, and no cooking on Thursday.

Pika: Sawa. Five dinners, one shop. Monday’s chicken feeds Tuesday too, and everything is nut-free for Amani.

Your week Nut-free
  • MonChicken & greens stir-fry25 min · you cook
  • TueChicken wraps10 min · for Brian, late
  • WedCoast fish curry35 min · Brian’s turn
  • ThuNight off: a flash mealfrom a hotel kitchen

You: Perfect. Get me the shopping.

Pika can do thisOne PikaFresh shop, Sunday 9amTen things. Three are already in your fridge, so Pika skipped them.Pika never pays without your tap

Safety & trust

Safe at every step.

From the moment you pay to the moment it lands, PikaBox is built so you never have to wonder.

  1. The M-Pesa prompt screen, waiting for your PIN

    Pay with M-Pesa

    A prompt lands on your phone; enter your PIN and you’re done. Refunds go back the way you paid.

  2. Taste and diet settings with a peanut allergy set as a hard filter

    Allergy-safe by default

    Tell us once. Your allergies filter what you see, what Pika suggests and what a picker may swap in.

  3. Live tracking: the rider’s route on the map with both parts of the order arriving together

    Follow it to your door

    Watch your rider live on the map, and reach help in the app with an SOS fast lane.

How we keep you safe

PikaSocial

Every dish, one tap from yours.

Reels, your nightly Sahani plate, Circles for family and friends, and Tables: a meal at a host’s home. Whatever you see, you can cook it, order it or book it.

Explore PikaSocial
Tables in PikaSocial: dinner clubs in Nairobi homes, with seats you can take

How it works

Three steps to your meal.

  1. Get the app

    Download PikaBox, set your area and tell us your allergies and diets once. Everything you see respects them.

  2. Choose your way

    Cook it with a cook-along and PikaFresh, order a home-cooked pot or a flash meal, or book a private chef.

  3. Pay and enjoy

    Pay with M-Pesa, follow your order live to your door, and share your plate when it lands.

More on how PikaBox works

Coverage

Do we deliver to you?

PikaFresh, Home Cooked, private chefs and flash meals each reach a little further every week. Check your street in a tap.

Pick a neighbourhood

WestlandsKilimaniKarenMombasa
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Earn with PikaBox

Your kitchen, your skills, your income.

PikaBox is built with the people who cook, ride and create for it, and each of them has an app of their own: pots, bookings, shifts and payouts in one place.

So much more!

Everything food, and so much more! Get the app.

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