IISER Kolkata mess facilities offer breakfast, lunch, evening snacks, and dinner to students. For breakfast, there will be options such as boiled egg, bread-butter, cornflakes, idli, omelet, sambar, vada, etc. with tea or coffee. Rice, roti, daal, paneer, fish, chicken, dahi, papad, salad, etc. are available for lunch. You will get samosas, chowmin, bread-butter, omelet, etc. for evening snacks. For dinner, students get options such as rice, roti, daal, veg fry, chili chicken, mutton, dahi, etc.
The mess menu of IISER Kolkata has many veg and non-veg dishes. Compared to the other IISER, the food provided here is cheaper, better, and more diverse.
Breakfast usually includes South and North Indian dishes along with tea and coffee. You will get biriyani, mutton kosha, chili chicken, veg pulao, paneer butter masala each week. The fish items served there are also quite good. After meals, there are also desserts too. Occasionally they also arrange special dishes and special desserts.
The food offered at IISER Kolkata is comparably better than the food served at most hostel canteens in India.