Director/PDMR Shareholding

Restaurant Group PLC
09 March 2007


The Restaurant Group PLC
09 March 2007

For immediate release

                            The Restaurant Group Plc
                                (the'Company')

   Notification of Interests of Directors and Persons Discharging Managerial
                 Responsibility ('PDMR') and connected persons

The Company announces the following conditional changes to the interests of
Directors and PDMRs in the Company's ordinary shares of 28.125p each ('Shares').

On 8 March 2007 the Company made the conditional awards of Shares ('Awards')
under the The Restaurant Group Long Term Incentive Plan ('LTIP') detailed below.

Name                 Role                                            Conditional       Potential
                                                                   shares awards matching awards
                                                                      (number)        (number)
Directors

Andrew Page          Chief Executive Officer                           145,929          39,170
Stephen Critoph      Group Finance Director                             69,124          20,737
Kevin Bacon          Managing Director, Leisure                         73,732          21,313
Trish Corzine        Managing Director, Concessions                     64,516          18,433

PDMR's
Robert Morgan        Company Secretary                                  22,273           4,032
Danny Breithaupt     Deputy Managing Director, Frankie & Benny's        23,041          10,138
Angelo Gabrilatsou   Director, Chiquito and Garfunkel's                 20,737           9,096


Awards granted under the LTIP will vest on the approval of the audited results
of the group for the year ending 31  December 2009 (i.e. March 2010), but only
to the extent that certain performance criteria based on earnings per share
growth and, in respect of awards granted to the directors and certain senior
executives only, total shareholder return have been satisfied by the Company
over a three year performance period.  Matching shares awards are granted on the
condition that they will not vest unless the participant has acquired a certain
number of Shares (known as 'Deposited Shares'). No consideration is payable for
the grant of the Awards and the receipt of Shares is conditional upon meeting
the performance criteria and, in the case of matching shares awards only, the
acquisition and holding of Deposited Shares.  It is intended that the Company's
employee benefit trust will acquire Shares necessary to fulfil any obligation
arising from the vesting of the Awards.

The notification of these Awards is intended to satisfy the Company's
obligations under Section 324 of the Companies Act 1985 and Disclosure Rule
3.1.4.

Enquiries

The Restaurant Group plc, Tel.: [phone]
Robert Morgan, Company Secretary






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