Granite City Restaurant features a full Bar and Brewery and has a growing amount of Restaurant and Bar locations in Cedar Rapids, Clive, Creve Coeur, Davenport, Eagan, East Peoria, Fargo, Fort Wayne, Kansas City, Lincoln, Madison, Maple Grove, Olathe, Omaha, Orland Park, Rockford, Rogers, Roseville, Sioux Falls, St. Cloud, St. Louis Park, Toledo, West Wichita, Wichita, Indianapolis, and South Bend.

Granite City Food & Brewery Opens in Eagan, Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS, September 20, 2005- Granite City Food & Brewery Ltd. (Nasdaq: GCFB) announced the opening of its tenth restaurant/microbrewery today in the St. Paul/Minneapolis suburb of Eagan, Minnesota.

"We are very excited with today's opening...our tenth Granite City Food & Brewery," said Steve Wagenheim, Granite City Food & Brewery's President and CEO. "It's a beautiful restaurant and the Minneapolis/St. Paul market has already proven to be a great location for us. We are looking forward to continued success and growth in this market and throughout the Midwest."

Wagenheim said the next Granite City is scheduled to open in November in the heart of Zona Rosa-- an upscale lifestyle center which is located in north Kansas City.

Granite City Food & Brewery Ltd. currently operates ten Granite City Food & Brewery casual dining restaurants featuring made-from-scratch food and handcrafted beers. Its broad menu offers traditional and regional foods served in generous portions at reasonable prices, affording guests an excellent value and great dining experience. Its first Granite City location, in St. Cloud, MN, opened in June 1999. Subsequently, the Company opened restaurants in Sioux Falls, SD, Fargo, ND, West Des Moines, IA, Cedar Rapids, IA, Davenport, IA, Lincoln, NE, Maple Grove and Eagan, MN and Wichita, KS.

Certain statements made in this press release of a non-historical nature constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. Such factors include, but are not limited to, changes in economic conditions, changes in consumer preferences or discretionary consumer spending, a significant change in the performance of any existing units, the ability to obtain financing for, and complete construction of, additional restaurants at acceptable costs, our ability to implement and execute Fermentus Interruptus and the risks and uncertainties described in the Company's Form 10-KSB Report for the year ended December 28, 2004, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Contact:
Steven J. Wagenheim
President and Chief Executive Officer
(952) 525-2030 or (612) 751-3331