Purple Bamboo Restaurant — Restaurant in Billerica

Excellent! Bar on one side if that's your forte, and family friendly seating area on the other.

Many restaurants with huge menus tend to serve mediocre food, but that's far from the case here. My coworker and I came here twice during our business trip and tried different entrees each time and all were excellent, fresh, and brought out quickly. This place is excellent for a family outing or large groups. Order a few entrees and share, as there will be plenty to go around. After the meal you see pictured, I felt like I needed a wheelchair to roll out of the restaurant to the car. We left feeling fat and happy for sure!

Two suggestions I do have are to improve the comfort of the booths (they are very hard and uncomfortable) and perhaps a curtain or small divider between the bar and restaurant sides to reduce the noise from the bar area.

If I am ever in the area again I will definitely be returning, and I would definitely...

First time ordering from here despite living 5 minutes away for like 5 years. It will be my last. We ordered online the scallion pancakes, beef teriyaki, boneless spareribs, house special fried rice, general gaus chicken, and vegetarian delight. The scallion pancakes were pretty amazing, and the general gaus was great. The fried rice wasn’t even fried and had little to no flavor. The boneless spareribs were dry and had no flavor at all. The beef teriyaki also had no flavor. The vegetarian delight was standard and good but nothing special. The inside of the place was packed when I picked up the food, it was ready in the time they estimated. It was loud inside with a very local/towny boomer vibe, so I would not want to dine in even if the food were great. Highly recommend the scallion pancakes, but that’s about it. There are tons of other better options in the area that are equivalently priced...

The food was okay. The veg was fresh, meats and seafood as well. The shrimp balls were the best things we ordered. The seafood sauce was weird and unappetizing. The sesame sauce tasted like melted peanut butter. I will say I pretty much eat everything so if it’s not good for me it may not be for you.. I asked for hoison sauce or soy sauce and they never came back. I ordered a Mai Tai which was good. Service was lacking- waiter didn’t even know what a captain and coke was, he came to us maybe once during our meal.

The biggest issue for me- I was eating everything plain, the sauces on the menu were gross. So basically I ate unflavored food (except shrimp balls- those were yummy).

They’ve just reopened btw. The tables are spacious and the dining area...