Mocha Café & Bar Brings a Trendsetting New Mood to Connaught Place

Mocha’s new café in Connaught Place serves everything from breakfast specials to innovative bar bites, keeping flavours exciting all day long. 

New Delhi, December 2025: Mocha, one of India’s most iconic homegrown café brands, welcomes you to Mocha Café & Bar in Connaught Place, marking its return to the NCR and a new chapter in its two-decade-long legacy. The revived Connaught Place restaurant brings that ethos back in an evolved  café-and-bar format, relaxed by day, vibrant by night, and in sync with the beat of contemporary Delhi

Now celebrating 24 years, Mocha continues to shape the way people dine and connect. Since opening  its doors at Churchgate Mumbai in 2001, Mocha has played a key role in defining India’s café culture.  Known for its scrumptious food ,warm and inviting spaces, Mocha offers more than just great food— it creates experiences. Every Mocha is designed to feel like an extension of home, where people come  together, share stories, enjoy meaningful conversations, and make lasting memories.  

A Beloved Delhi Legacy Returns 

First introduced to Delhi in 2004 through its beloved GK-1 café, Mocha helped shape the city’s early  café culture with its warm and inviting spaces designed for great coffee, comforting food, and unhur ried conversations. Reflecting the vision behind the new space, Mr. Riyaaz Amlani, MD of Impresario  Entertainment & Hospitality Pvt. Ltd, shares, 

“Mocha is a state of mind. At its core, we embrace the spirit of letting you be. Each Mocha is de signed as a unique retreat, offering a distinct experience every time you walk in. We waited for the  right location to bring Mocha back to Delhi, and once we found it, we set out to create a true escape  in the heart of urban life. The result is a space designed to awaken your senses, redefine Delhi’s food  and nightlife culture, and receive a warm, heartfelt response from the city’s food lovers.” 

Building on the energy lent by those who frequent it, Mocha has founded communities that are not  restricted by geography or dictated by a few but rather are a gathering of likeminded people. With a  belief that each customer makes his or her own space at Mocha, the mood is unlike any and transports  you to a zone where you can put your feet up and watch the world go by. Mocha continues to set the  standard for innovative café experiences, offering a perfect blend of comfort, creativity, and connec tion.  

Rishub Malhotra, Franchisee Partner, Mocha Café & Bar, adds: 

“Connaught Place has the vibrancy and cultural energy that perfectly match Mocha’s spirit. With  Mocha Café & Bar, we wanted to create a warm, everyday space where great food, great cocktails,  and great conversations come together. Mocha CP feels familiar yet fresh, the kind of place that  quickly becomes ‘your spot’ in the heart of the city.”

Mocha’s all day menu offers comforting, multicultural flavours for every mood, from Bun Maska &  Chai, Korean Garlic Bun, Keema Ghotala, Smoothie Bowls, and Global Omelettes to Purani Dil li inspired dishes, Asian bowls, pastas, pizzas, bao, burgers, momos, paninis, sandwiches, and  sizzlers. 

Indian favourites such as Dal Makhani, Paneer Tikka Butter Masala, Matka Chicken, Murgh  Rara, and Dum Biryanis anchor the menu, while decadent desserts including Biscoff and Hazelnut  Mocha cheesecakes, Mocha Lava Lava, Sizzling Brownie, Kunafa, and Chocolate Avalanche of fer a perfect finish. 

Complementing its signature beverages, the café and bar format includes a curated alcohol menu with clarified cocktails, wines, and premium spirits, ideal for meet ups, after work drinks, or late night  conversations. 

Pradeep Pathak, AVP Operations India, shares: “At Mocha, we study food culture rather than  trends. This guides what we add to the menu, helping us enhance and complement our culinary offer ing. We are excited for Mocha’s next voyage and can’t wait for guests to share their experiences. Our  guests have always been our driving force, and they’re the reason we are still here after twenty four  years.” 

A Design Rooted in Fluid Lutyens’ Delhi 

Mocha CP has been reimagined with refined bohemian warmth. The space features an earthy, neutral  palette enriched with terrazzo flooring, textured walls, rough stone, wood, terracotta accents, and soft  greenery. 

Designers Prantap Trikha- Praxis Studio & Asif Kureshi -The Matchworks share: “We wanted Mocha CP to echo the spirit of Lutyens’ Delhi through a softer, more fluid lens, modern  boho sensibilities blended with the architectural and cultural cues of the neighbourhood. The design  subtly draws from the idea of “Fluid Lutyens’ Delhi”, with sculptural elements, botanical art, and  nods to neighbourhood landmarks such as Agrasen ki Baoli and Jantar Mantar, creating an immer sive yet understated connection to the area’s architectural heritage. 

Rajiv Dogra Brand Chef says All the dishes are designed keeping the mind the palette of Delhites and  are meant to let you bond over great food with family and friends.With options to satiate liquor afi cionados as well as foodies, there will be something new to sample on every visit. 

Mocha Café & Bar CP is poised to become one of Connaught Place’s most inviting new social spaces,  a destination where mornings linger, evenings spark to life and coffee sits comfortably beside cock tails in an atmosphere that feels both familiar and refreshingly new.  

Whether you drop in alone or with someone else..you can read a book, hum along to a favourite tune,  work on your laptop or just listen to the sounds of laughter and chatter that Mocha is always filled  with. Be it a peaceful morning breakfast, a comfortable working atmosphere or a socializing evening,  we have accommodated it all.  

We take immense pride in presenting The MOCHA Cafe & Bar @ Connaught Place to you.” The  overall effect is that of a peaceful abode where you would least expect one. So come by and soak it in  for yourself. You will be in a Mocha state of mind in no time at all!

About Mocha: 

Mocha, the flagship and award winning brand from Impresario Entertainment & Hospitality Pvt.  Ltd. (IEHPL), is India!s first completely indigenous, eclectic café brand. Offering a wide ranging menu shaped by local and cultural nuances, Mocha is one of the country!s most successful café and bar concepts. Born in 2001 in the bylanes of Churchgate, Mumbai, and introduced to Delhi in 2004  with its iconic GK 1 outpost, Mocha has spent over two decades shaping India!s urban café culture through its warm spaces and community driven ethos. Today, the brand continues to evolve with its  café and bar format, bringing together great food and experiences that feel both familiar and refresh ingly contemporary.