Exhibit 99.1


                      BJ's Restaurants, Inc. to Present at
                  the RBC Capital Markets Consumer Conference



    HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 2006--BJ's
Restaurants, Inc. (Nasdaq:BJRI), will be presenting at the RBC Capital
Markets Consumer Conference to be held at Disney's Grand Floridian
Resort & Spa in Orlando, Florida. The Company's presentation will be
on Wednesday, September 27th at approximately 9:05 a.m. (Eastern). The
conference will not be providing webcasting for individual company
presentations.

    BJ's Restaurants, Inc. currently owns and operates 51 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
eleven microbreweries which produce and distribute BJ's critically
acclaimed handcrafted beers throughout the chain. The Company's
restaurants are located in California (34), Texas (7), 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 34 of our current 51 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