When Mocha opened its doors at Churchgate (Mumbai) in December 2001 it was a small and homely coffee shop. Right outside Berry’s restaurant, the first Mocha boasted an eclectic Indo-Tibetan theme and fresh worldly coffee. Time went by and the people came and coffee brewed. When the tables fell short but the coffee didn’t we took it as a sign. It was time to grow. By August 2002 Mocha had extended to the entire premises of Berry’s restaurant and by December of the same year, Mocha Bandra was christened.

Soon Mumbai’s biggest Mocha opened at Juhu with a flamboyant Polynesian and Mediterranean look. Our small and homely coffee shop had already come a long way. By now it was time to introduce Delhi to the Mocha experience. And so we cut the ribbon at GK-1 in May 2004 and Delhi had its own cozy Mocha with its unique Neo Middle Eastern Lounge theme.

If things were moving fast, they just got a lot faster. Word about our coffee shop spread from lip to lip and city to city. The next flavour of Mocha surfaced in Powai, stunning its customers with its rich influences from Africa and its mesmerizing Japanese lanterns.

Some things just didn’t make sense at Mocha but to us that was the idea. The thing about Mocha was the coffee shop itself. It was never designed to be a cut-and-paste format where every outlet would look the same. Go to two Mochas and you’ll find them absolutely different. That’s what brought people to our tables. That every coffee shop was vibrant, different and full of surprises!

Powai was followed by Ahmedabad in 2005 with its Thai bungalow design and tapestry. The Mulund Mocha revealed how a French café theme with a hint of baroque could sweep people off their feet. If all this wasn’t stunning enough Mocha’s Chennai outlet hit the spotlight. The largest Mocha in India with 10000 sq. feet and an entirely different look and feel from other Mochas made other coffee shops feel like vending machines.

Next it was Hyderabad’s turn to smile at Mocha’s new creation. With a sprawling 8000 sq. feet in Banjara hills the new Mocha was styled out of the home of a former nawab. It’s every room dazzled with a different theme and was subtly punctuated by its antique colonial furniture.

Jaipur got its own Mocha in March 2006 with rich Rajput motifs and royal tapestries.Finally the student town of Pune got a touch of Mocha cool in August 2006 with its very own and fresh Moroccan feel, followed by Mocha Lokhandwala and Mocha Chandigarh in February in 2007.

With 13 operational outlets across the country and our own central kitchen, Mocha stands for the coolest coffee shop in the country with its own sense of style. It has proven that a coffee shop chain doesn’t need to look like the cubicles in an office. Every shop can have its own wild and intense flavour. Everything from a wall to a cup can have its own sense of expression and identity. That diversity and variety in every outlet enriches rather than confuses. And makes it a coffee shop people love to visit once more.