diff --git a/spring-social-facebook/src/main/java/org/springframework/social/facebook/api/Facebook.java b/spring-social-facebook/src/main/java/org/springframework/social/facebook/api/Facebook.java
index 05ffe4a7..a77448c0 100644
--- a/spring-social-facebook/src/main/java/org/springframework/social/facebook/api/Facebook.java
+++ b/spring-social-facebook/src/main/java/org/springframework/social/facebook/api/Facebook.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 import org.springframework.social.ApiBinding;
 import org.springframework.social.facebook.api.impl.FacebookTemplate;
+import org.springframework.web.client.RestOperations;
 
 
 /**
@@ -76,4 +77,10 @@ public interface Facebook extends GraphApi, ApiBinding {
 	 */
 	UserOperations userOperations();
 	
+	/**
+	 * Returns the underlying {@link RestOperations} object allowing for consumption of Facebook endpoints that may not be otherwise covered by the API binding.
+	 * The RestOperations object returned is configured to include an OAuth 2 "Authorization" header on all requests.
+	 */
+	RestOperations restOperations();
+
 }
diff --git a/spring-social-facebook/src/main/java/org/springframework/social/facebook/api/impl/FacebookTemplate.java b/spring-social-facebook/src/main/java/org/springframework/social/facebook/api/impl/FacebookTemplate.java
index 8e6c52ad..f4cd5e91 100644
--- a/spring-social-facebook/src/main/java/org/springframework/social/facebook/api/impl/FacebookTemplate.java
+++ b/spring-social-facebook/src/main/java/org/springframework/social/facebook/api/impl/FacebookTemplate.java
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 import org.springframework.social.support.URIBuilder;
 import org.springframework.util.LinkedMultiValueMap;
 import org.springframework.util.MultiValueMap;
+import org.springframework.web.client.RestOperations;
 import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;
 
 /**
@@ -154,6 +155,10 @@ public PageOperations pageOperations() {
 		return pageOperations;
 	}
 	
+	public RestOperations restOperations() {
+		return getRestTemplate();
+	}
+	
 	// low-level Graph API operations
 	public <T> T fetchObject(String objectId, Class<T> type) {
 		URI uri = URIBuilder.fromUri(GRAPH_API_URL + objectId).build();