Exhibit 99.1

BJ's Restaurants Inc. to Present at the SG Cowen & Co. Consumer Conference

    HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 4, 2006--Jerry
Deitchle, president and CEO, and Greg Levin, CFO, of BJ's Restaurants
Inc. (Nasdaq:BJRI), will address the investment community next
Wednesday at the following conference:

    --  January 11, 2006 - 9:30 a.m. (Eastern): SG Cowen & Co. LLC 4th
        Annual Consumer Conference (Westin New York at Times Square,
        New York)

    The presentation at the SG Cowen 4th Annual Consumer Conference
will be broadcast over the Internet. Interested parties can listen to
the presentation by accessing the conference site at
www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/confLobby.zhtml?ticker=BJRI&item_id=1188819
.. The presentation will also be available on the company's Web site
located at http://www.bjsrestaurants.com. An archive of the webcast
will be available approximately 24 hours after the presentation and
will be available for 30 days.

    BJ's Restaurants Inc. currently owns and operates 44 casual dining
restaurants under the BJ's Restaurant and Brewery, BJ's Restaurant and
Brewhouse or BJ's Pizza & Grill brand names. BJ's restaurants offer an
innovative and broad menu featuring award-winning, signature deep-dish
pizza complemented with generously portioned salads, sandwiches,
soups, pastas, entrees and desserts. Quality, flavor, value, moderate
prices and sincere service remain distinct attributes of the BJ's
experience. The company operates 11 microbreweries which produce and
distribute BJ's critically acclaimed handcrafted beers throughout the
chain. The company's restaurants are located in California (30), Texas
(6), Arizona (3), Oregon (3), Colorado (1) and Nevada (1). The company
also has a licensing interest in a BJ's restaurant in Lahaina, Maui.
Visit BJ's Restaurants Inc. on the Web at
http://www.bjsrestaurants.com.

    Certain statements in the preceding paragraphs and all other
statements that are not purely historical constitute "forward-looking
statements" for purposes of the Securities Act of 1933 and the
Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and are intended to
be covered by the safe harbors created thereby. These forward-looking
statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other
factors which may cause actual results to be materially different from
those projected or anticipated. Factors that might cause such
differences include, but are not limited to: (i) our ability to manage
an increasing number of new restaurant openings, (ii) construction
delays, (iii) labor shortages, (iv) minimum wage increases (v) food
quality and health concerns, (vi) factors that impact California,
where 30 of our current 44 restaurants are located, (vii) restaurant
and brewery industry competition, (viii) impact of certain brewery
business considerations, including without limitation, dependence upon
suppliers and related hazards, (ix) consumer trends, (x) potential
uninsured losses and liabilities, (xi) fluctuating commodity costs
including food and energy, (xii) trademark and servicemark risks,
(xiii) government regulations, (xiv) licensing costs (xv) beer and
liquor regulations, (xvi) loss of key personnel, (xvii) inability to
secure acceptable sites, (xviii) limitations on insurance coverage,
(xix) legal proceedings, (xx) other general economic and regulatory
conditions and requirements, (xxi) and numerous other matters
discussed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. BJ's Restaurants Inc. undertakes no obligation to update
or alter its forward-looking statements whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise.

    For further information, please contact Greg Levin of BJ's
Restaurants Inc., 714-848-3747, ext. 240.

    CONTACT: BJ's Restaurants Inc.
             Greg Levin, 714-848-3747 ext. 240