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Home Cooked · verified home cooks

Real kitchens,
ready tonight.

The pot your neighbour puts on at two is at your door by seven. Every cook is verified and food-safety trained, and a rider collects at their gate. Hot, sealed and honest.
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Kitchen checkedFood-safety trainedSealed at the gate
Mama Akinyi · beef stew
7 of 20 plates left · at yours 7:35
Otis is at the gate
Collecting 3 plates · sealed 6:52
Home Cooked in the app: pots on near you tonight
A home cook’s kitchen in the app, kitchen-checked, with tonight’s pot

What it is

Home Cooked is food from real Nairobi home kitchens. Each cook puts on a pot tonight and you order a plate; a PikaBox rider collects it, sealed, at her gate.

Why it’s good

  1. Every cook is ID-checked and passes a food-safety course before her kitchen opens
  2. Allergens declared on every dish, so you know what is in your plate
  3. Cooked fresh today, with a four-hour freshness clock from pot to plate
Pots on near you

On the stove near you.

No home kitchens near Westlands yet

Kitchens near you are closed right now. Cook yourself? Your neighbours are waiting.

Sell from your kitchen

Home Cooked runs across Nairobi today, a few more streets every week.Check your streetPikaBox in Nairobi

Taste of home

Homesick? Food from your county.

Nairobi is everyone’s second home. Find a cook from where you grew up, making it the way your mother did, or ask a few cooks for the dish you miss.

Asking three cooks from Nyanza for kienyeji chicken like Mum’s, with their replies coming in

How it works

From her stove to your door, sealed.

  1. The cook

    The pot goes on

    In the afternoon a cook posts tonight’s pot with a photo, the plates and a ready time. Before it opens she ticks her hygiene check and declares every allergen.

    Before the pot opens: the cook’s hygiene check, and the allergens that go on every label

  2. You

    Reserve your plates

    Order on the web or in the app, say how hungry you are and make it yours. Pay with M-Pesa; you’re charged only when it’s collected.

    A plate of beef stew and chapati: the cook’s note, its allergens, and how hungry you are

  3. Your rider

    Collected at her gate, sealed

    A PikaBox rider collects at the cook’s gate. She checks his face and his code, and every plate is sealed with a tear strip. No addresses are shared.

    The handover at the gate: the rider’s face and code are checked before the sealed plates leave

  4. Your door

    Hot at your door

    Follow it live, check the seal, eat. Rate the cook, and the plate goes into your Sahani.

    Live tracking: the rider’s route on the map to your door

Safety

Safe by design, not by luck.

We built Home Cooked so you never have to wonder about a kitchen, and a cook never has to share where she lives.

  1. Verified cooks

    An ID check, a food-safety course, a video kitchen check and a tasted first pot, all before her kitchen opens.

  2. Collected at the gate

    Buyers never see the cook’s address, and cooks never see yours. Riders only see the next stop.

  3. Sealed with a tear strip

    Every container is sealed at the gate with a numbered tear strip. If it’s broken, don’t eat it: tell us and we refund you.

  4. A four-hour freshness clock

    Every plate is cooked today and goes from pot to plate within four hours.

Beyond tonight

Plan ahead, feed everyone.

The same kitchens, for the week ahead, the office and the whole family.

  1. Your cooks’ week: Sunday’s pots from the cooks you follow, ready to reserve

    Your cooks’ week

    Reserve plates ahead from the cooks you follow, and pay when it’s ready.

  2. The weekday lunch box: a dish a day to your office, with the week laid out

    A weekday lunch box

    Home food to your office at lunchtime, Monday to Friday. Swap any day in the morning.

  3. Order a whole sufuria: the occasion, how many people and what goes in the pots

    A whole sufuria

    For harambees, office parties and family gatherings, ask a few cooks for a price on a whole pot.

Plan ahead in the web app

Getting verified: ID, food handler’s certificate, hygiene course, a video kitchen check and a first pot tasted
The home cook’s app: tonight’s pot and the riders collecting at her gate

Cook with us

Your kitchen is a business.

Put your pot on, neighbours order, and a rider collects at your gate. Grow from Starter to Kitchen legend, with payouts to M-Pesa.

  1. Starter
  2. Neighbourhood
  3. Star
  4. Kitchen legend
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The pots are on.

Order on the web with M-Pesa, or get the app to follow your plate live from her gate to your door.

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Nairobi’s food, all in one place.