My Restaurant Rules is an Australian reality television series that aired on the Seven Network.

The series pits five couples, each from Australia's five major cities, to compete against each other in opening a successful restaurant.

In initial episodes of the show the couples are given a vacated restaurant space in their home city that must be renovated. They also compete for additional money that can be used for renovation from a panel of judges based on a presentation of their mission statement and plan for their proposed restaurant. The judges also make further appearances later on in the series in both critiquing the restaurants and offering rewards to the contestants.

After a number of weeks the elimination process begins with the restaurants and their owners, reviewed and judged for nomination. The nominated restaurants then compete for votes from a phone poll, with the winner moving on and the loser being forced to shut down. This process continues until a single competing restaurant remains.

Despite the process of elimination that sees almost all competing restaurants shut down, every restaurant featured in the programme was successful and operated in the black. This is because the exposure the restaurants are given via the show. Moreover, some eliminated restaurants managed to re-open at new locations.

The first series of My Restaurant Rules aired in 2004 and featured the five following restaurants and couples:

In the series finale, Perth's Room Nineteen and owners Ash and Amanda were declared the winners, beating Peter and Tayissa of Melbourne's Seven Stones.

Series one was hosted by Curtis Stone.