Chicago / Food + Beverage

We help good places become places people know about.


Mokha is a Chicago-based creative studio working with restaurants, bars, cafés, and food + beverage brands on the strategy, content, and creative direction that keeps them visible.

Mokha Creative Studios working with a food and beverage brand

On set / Chicago

Who we are

We're a small creative team with a close relationship to the businesses we work with. That means knowing what's happening in the dining room, what's changing on the menu, what people are responding to, and where the brand should go next.

Sherin Ali of Mokha Creative Studios

Founder + Director

Sherin Ali

Sherin leads strategy, positioning, messaging, and the bigger-picture thinking behind Mokha's work.

Sidney Rakowiecki of Mokha Creative Studios

Creative Lead

Sidney Rakowiecki

Sidney leads creative direction, campaign concepts, content production, and the visual systems that make brands feel unmistakably themselves.

The Mokha Method

Less content for content's sake. More reasons to care.

Good restaurant marketing isn't about filling a feed. It's about understanding what makes a place worth choosing, then making that impossible to miss.

  1. 01 Identify what you're known for.
  2. 02 Make it recognizable.
  3. 03 Give people a reason to come in.
  4. 04 Give them a reason to come back.

How we work

Close to the business. Curious about the details. Always thinking about the bigger picture.

Creative production for a Mokha Creative Studios client

Small studio / big-picture thinking

Close enough to know the business. Strategic enough to see what it could become.

If your place is good, people should know about it.

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