Director Shareholding

Restaurant Group PLC
14 April 2004





                    The Restaurant Group plc ('the Company')



The Restaurant Group plc announces that Trish Corzine, a director, has exercised
options to subscribe for 11,101 ordinary shares in the Company at 60.8p per
share on 7 April 2004. Following the exercise she now holds an interest in
18,601 ordinary shares in the Company.












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