Purchase of Shares

Restaurant Group PLC
26 November 2007


26 November 2007
                    The Restaurant Group plc (the 'Company')

                          Purchase of Shares

The Restaurant Group plc was advised on 23 November 2007 by the trustees of The
Restaurant Group Employee Benefit Trust (the potential beneficiaries of the
trust being certain of the employees of The Restaurant Group including directors
and PDMRs of the Company) of the acquisition of 1,000,000 shares at a price of
223.621p each on 23 November 2007.

The Employee Benefit Trust now has a beneficial interest in 2,500,000 ordinary
shares representing 1.27 per cent. of the issued ordinary share capital of the
Company.

26 November 2007

Contacts:

The Restaurant Group                                               0845 612 5001

Robert Morgan, Company Secretary

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