Director/PDMR Shareholding

Restaurant Group PLC
25 June 2007


                    The Restaurant Group plc ('the Company')

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

The Restaurant Group plc ('the Company') announces that the the following
directors and PDMRs have today purchased shares in the Company at 314.5p per
share:

Name             Status            No of Shares   No. Held Following  Purchase
------           --------             Purchased         ----------------------
                             ------------------

Alan Jackson     Director                 8,000                        378,198

Stephen Critoph  Director                 5,000                         43,250

Kevin Bacon      Director                 5,000                        113,140

Patricia Corzine Director                 3,155                         88,430

John Jackson     Director                10,000                         59,166

David Richardson Director                 8,000                         13,000

Andrew Thomas    Director                 3,500                         52,388

Robert Morgan    PDMR                     2,500                         35,710


Also, Andrew Page a Director has today purchased 8,000 shares in the Company at
311.76p for his SIPP, following this purchase Mr Page now holds an interest in
258,173 ordinary shares in the Company.

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