Director/PDMR Shareholding

Restaurant Group PLC
25 May 2006


                    The Restaurant Group plc ('the Company')

    Dealing by Directors and Persons Disclosing Managerial Responsibilities
                                   ('PDMRs')


The Restaurant Group plc ('the Company') has been advised on 24 May 2006 that
the following directors and PDMRs have purchased shares in the Company on 24 May
2006, at 195p per share:

Name                     Status           No of Shares Purchased
------                   --------         ------------------------
Alan Jackson             Director         5,000
Andrew Page              Director         5,000
Stephen Critoph          Director         1,000
Kevin Bacon              Director         1,000
Patricia Corzine         Director         1,000
John Jackson             Director         2,500
Bob Ivell                Director         2,500
Andrew Thomas            Director         2,611
Robert Morgan            PDMR             1,000



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