African food, cooked by people who grew up on it
Home cooks, caterers and small kitchens near you. Search the food rather than the shop, because whoever makes the best egusi on your road is not the one with the biggest sign.
iPhone and Android apps are on the way.
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Hadi's Kitchen · 1.2 mi · 25–40 min
Mama Nkechi · 0.8 mi · 30–45 min
Aunty B's · 2.1 mi · 20–35 min
The food
All 83 dishesEvery dish has a page: what it is, where it comes from, how hot it usually is, and who cooks it near you.
What the app does
Search the food, not the shop
Type egusi and find the person who makes it, not a list of the nearest takeaways. Every spelling works, because the app knows jollof, jelof and party jollof are the same rice.
Know what you are ordering
Every dish carries how hot it usually is, what is in it, and whether the kitchen says halal, vegan or gluten free. Allergies go in a note the cook reads before they start.
Watch it being made
Accepted, cooking, ready, on its way. The kitchen can tell you if it is running late, and you tap once to say it arrived.
Keep the cooks you like
Save a kitchen or a dish and order it again in two taps. The cook keeps their customers, which is the whole point of this.
Where the cooking is from
How it works
- 1
Find the dish
Search what you want to eat. Every spelling finds it, and every dish says how hot it usually is.
- 2
Pick a kitchen
See who cooks it near you, what they charge, and whether they deliver or you collect.
- 3
They cook it
Your card is held, not charged, until the kitchen accepts. Then you watch it through to the door.
Why not just use a delivery app
The food comes first
On a delivery app a home cook is a restaurant competing on price. Here, someone looking for egusi finds the person who makes it.
Kitchens are checked
Every kitchen is verified and registered with its local authority before it takes a single order.
The cook keeps more
15% commission against 25 to 35% elsewhere, and it comes out of the order rather than your bill.
“However long the night, the dawn will break.”
Be first when we open near you
Tell us your city and the dish you miss most. We open one city at a time, and the list is how we decide which city is next.
- No spam. One email when we open near you
- Your dish helps us decide which kitchens to sign
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Do you cook this food?
If you already sell through WhatsApp or Instagram, mamaPut gives you a page of your own, a proper way to take payment, and customers who searched for your dish by name. You keep 85%, and Stripe pays you straight to your bank.
See how it works for kitchensQuestions
- What is mamaPut?
- A marketplace for African food cooked by home cooks, caterers and small kitchens in the UK. You order from the kitchen and they cook it themselves. We are not a restaurant and we do not cook anything.
- When can I order?
- We are opening city by city. Join the list with your city and we will tell you the moment kitchens near you are taking orders.
- What food is on mamaPut?
- 83 dishes so far, across Nigerian, Ghanaian, Senegalese, Gambian, Sierra Leonean and Ivorian cooking. Jollof rice, egusi soup, suya, waakye, thieboudienne and more.
- Are the kitchens checked?
- Yes. A kitchen must be verified before it can take orders, and registered with its local authority as a food business.
- Is the food halal?
- Some of it. Kitchens tell us whether they are halal and it is shown on the dish before you order, so you can see rather than ask.
- How much does it cost a kitchen?
- 15% commission, taken out of the order rather than added to the customer's bill, against 25 to 35% on the big delivery apps. Stripe pays the kitchen straight to their bank.