Running Mocha setup before each suite rather than before each test

There’s no call similar to beforeEach or before that does what you want. But it is not needed because you can do it this way:

function makeSuite(name, tests) {
    describe(name, function () {
        before(function () {
            console.log("shared before");
        });
        tests();
        after(function () {
            console.log("shared after");
        });
    });
}

makeSuite('Suite one', function(){
  it('S1 Test one', function(done){
      done();
  });
  it('S1 Test two', function(done){
      done();
  });
});

makeSuite('Suite two', function(){
  it('S2 Test one', function(done){
    done();
  });
});