BJ's Restaurants Inc. Opens in Corona, California.

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. -- BJ's Restaurants Inc. (NASDAQ:BJRI) announced today the opening of its newest BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse in Corona, Calif. on April 5, 2005. The 7,000-square-foot freestanding restaurant is at The Crossings at Corona, located at 2520 Tuscany Road. The restaurant has seating for 244 guests with hours of operation from 11 a.m. to midnight Sunday through Thursday, and 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday.

"We were extremely pleased with opening day's sales at Corona," said Jerry Deitchle, president and CEO. "Additionally, our first Riverside County restaurant, which opened March 22, 2005, in Moreno Valley, achieved over $300,000 in sales during its first 14 days of operations. We are thrilled about the future prospects for these two new restaurants, and remain on track to open eight or more restaurants during fiscal 2005."

BJ's Restaurants Inc. currently owns and operates 37 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 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 10 microbreweries which produce and distribute BJ's critically acclaimed handcrafted beers throughout the chain. The company's restaurants are located in California (26), Texas (5), Oregon (3), Arizona (1), Colorado (1) and Nevada (1). The company also has a licensing interest in a BJ's restaurant in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii. 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 24 of our current 35 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, and (xv) other general economic and regulatory conditions and requirements.