Exhibit 99.1

                      BJ's Restaurants Inc. Announces Date
          for First Quarter 2006 Earnings Release and Conference Call


    HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2006--BJ's
Restaurants Inc. (Nasdaq:BJRI) today announced that it will release
its first quarter 2006 results after the market closes on Thursday,
April 27, 2006. The company will host an investor conference call at 2
p.m. (Pacific) that same day. The conference call will be broadcast
live over the Internet. To listen to the conference call, please visit
the main page of the company's Web site located at
http://www.bjsrestaurants.com several minutes prior to the start of
the call to register and download any necessary audio software. An
archived webcast will be available for 30 days following the call.

    BJ's Restaurants Inc. currently owns and operates 47 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 (31), Texas
(6), Arizona (4), Oregon (3), Colorado (2) 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 31 of our current 47 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