We went for the Durga puja special Novotel Bengali Buffet along with our office colleagues. First things first - 1. Cost per person is 1999/- +tax 2. The rate is flat with no veg only option (mostly in Kolkata it may not matter, but in Bengaluru, it might be quite an overspend for vegetarians). The staff were very courteous and friendly. Service was super quick for the items from the live counter ( like fish fry, Luchi and Kochuri, Fuchka, jhal muri, rolls). They were helping some of my colleagues who are not Bengali to explain and decide on the items. The food quality is very good in itself and one cannot complain anything about it. The spread was huge with a wide variety of starters featuring Mach bhaja (fried fish- catla, Rohu and Parshe), Panch bhaja (6 types- brinjal, Padwal, bitter gourd, potato and so on). There were further more starters from the bengali basket for both veg and non vegetarian like egg roll, paneer roll, chicken rolls, aloo badamer chop, beguni and so on. In the main course, there was the Bengali favourite Luchi and Alur dom, chicken dak bungalow, mutton kosha, parshe macher jhol , chittol macher muthya, paneer, bengali 5 veg mixed veggie(Panch meshali tarkari), platter of salads, moong dal, white rice, pulao, chicken Biriyani and a host of Chinese items for both veg and nonveg (Chinese items from kolkata are quite a hype in West Bengal). Deserts were full of bengali items like mishti doi, baked rosogolla, ledikini, chanar jalebi and many more. Few cons to me - 1. the sweets were bit more sweet for all of us. 2. The menu changes everyday. So one may not be sure on what would be the menu on that day 3. In an authentic bengali buffet, I would expect the below items - cholar dal, prawn malaikari or shorshe, bhapa fish (bhetki), authentic bengali chicken and mutton biriyani with aloo and egg, an item on Hilsa fish (although it was available as add on with an extra payment of 500/-). So, this was bit of a miss for us. Overall it was a good experience with few misses for us, but would have expected a bit more authentic Bengali food.