Exhibit 99.1

BJ's Restaurants Inc. Named to the FORTUNE Small Business Top 100 List
                     of Fastest-Growing Companies

    HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 2006--In its
July/August 2006 issue of FSB Magazine, FORTUNE named BJ's Restaurants
Inc. (Nasdaq:BJRI) to its prestigious list of the 100 fastest-growing
small public companies for 2006. To develop its sixth annual FSB 100
list, FORTUNE asked financial research firm Zacks to rank public
companies with revenues of less than $200 million and a stock price of
more than $1, based on their three-year growth in earnings, revenue,
and performance (banks and real estate firms were excluded).
    "We are very pleased to be included on this prestigious list of
growth companies for 2006," said Jerry Deitchle, president and CEO.
"With only 48 restaurants open today, we clearly have the vast
majority of our growth still ahead of us. We believe the best years
for BJ's are yet to come."

    BJ's Restaurants Inc. currently owns and operates 48 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 (32), 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 32 of our current 48 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 service-mark 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.

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