About PikaBox
Nairobi’s food, all in one place.
PikaBox is Nairobi’s food app: home-cooked meals from verified cooks, private chefs, flash suppers from the city’s top hotel kitchens, fresh groceries and MealKits, recipes you can cook along with, and Pika, your AI food assistant.
Why we built it
Your feed shows you food. PikaBox lets you have it tonight.
Every evening we scroll past food we would love to eat: a coconut fish curry from the coast, a pot of githeri someone’s mum made, a Sunday roast from a hotel kitchen across town. Then we close the app and wonder what to cook.
Good food is already being made all around us, in home kitchens, chefs’ studios, hotel kitchens and on farms an hour outside the city. PikaBox connects all of it, safely, to your table.
Cook it with a cook-along and the ingredients from PikaFresh, order a plate from a verified home cook, book a private chef, catch a flash supper from one of the city’s top kitchens, or let Pika plan the week around your family’s allergies.
What we believe
Six things we won’t trade.
They decide how we build, who we work with and what we say no to.
- Kitchens firstCooks, chefs and farmers are the heart of PikaBox. They set their own prices and keep their regulars.
- Trust is the productEvery cook and chef is checked before they cook for you, and a chef’s booking is held safely until the dinner is done.
- Allergens, honestlyAllergens are declared on every dish, and a swap never sneaks a new one into your basket.
- Your tap, alwaysPika can plan, compare and fill your basket. It never pays or books without you.
- Your data is yoursHealth data is read only with your consent, and it is never sold.
- Waste nothingPlates a home cook doesn’t sell can go, free, to a verified feeding programme nearby.
Who makes it
Built with the people who cook.
Every supper on PikaBox is somebody’s work. Each of them has tools of their own: pots, bookings, shifts and payouts in one place.
- Home cooksSell tonight’s pot from a verified home kitchen.
- Private chefsGet booked for dinners, parties, lessons and meal prep.
- RidersDeliver on your own hours, paid nightly to M-Pesa.
- CreatorsShare food people can order, and earn from what it sells.
- Hotels and partnersOpen your kitchen for flash suppers, or supply PikaFresh.
- FarmersGrow for PikaFresh, with your farm’s name on the shelf.
Made in Nairobi
Come cook with us.
We’re building Nairobi’s food app, from Nairobi. Say hello at hello@pikabox.co.
