LIDIA BASTIANICH BOOK SIGNING AT FAIRWAY MARKET NANUET SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2013

LIDIA BASTIANICH
BOOK SIGNING AT FAIRWAY MARKET NANUET

SATURDAY,
DECEMBER 21, 2013

GET YOUR SIGNED COPY OF
LIDIA’S COMMONSENSE ITALIAN COOKING

Meet the Renowned
Restaurateur, Author and TV Chef and Sample Some of Her Pasta and Sauces

(Nanuet,
NY) December 9, 2013 - “Everyone come to the table and eat” is a favorite
expression of renowned Italian cooking star Lidia Bastianich. On Saturday, Dec
14, 2013 – ‘Everyone can come to Fairway Market (The Shops at Nanuet 75 West
Route 59) and greet the Emmy-award winning TV host, celebrated author and
successful restaurateur from 1 pm to 3
pm when she will sign copies of  her
new book, Lidia’s Commonsense Italian Cooking: 150 Delicious and Simple Recipes Anyone
Can Master.

Bastianich
is the author of eight precious cookbooks, an Emmy award winning television
host of Lidia’s Kitchen on PBS and owner of Felidia, Del Posto, Becco, Eataly,
and other acclaimed restaurants. Shoppers will also have the opportunity to
sample some of the LIDIA’S line of pasta and sauces.

In
her new book, which she co-wrote with her daughter, Tanya Bastianich Manuali, she
lays out a comprehensive curriculum of wise cooking tips--from the cutting
board to the kitchen table. It is a
collection of 150 delectable recipes told with common sense cooking wisdom that
teaches how to create simple, seasonal, Italian dishes with grace, confidence,
and love.

 About
Fairway Market

Fairway
Market (NASDAQ:FWM) is a high-growth food retailer offering customers a
differentiated one-stop shopping experience “Like No Other Market”.  Fairway
has established itself as a leading food retailing destination in the Greater
New York City metropolitan area, with stores that emphasize an extensive
selection of fresh, natural, and organic products, prepared foods, and
hard-to-find specialty and gourmet offerings, along with a full assortment of
conventional groceries.  Fairway is headquartered in New York, New York.
For more information, go to www.fairwaymarket.com

Forward-Looking Statements

Except
for historical information contained herein, the statements in this release are
forward-looking and made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involving
known and unknown risks and uncertainties and other factors that may cause
Fairway’s actual results in current or future periods to differ materially from
forecasted results.  Food retail is a large and highly competitive
industry, and Fairway’s business involves many risks and uncertainties,
including, but not limited to: our ability to open new stores on a timely basis
or at all; our ability to achieve sustained sales and profitable operating
margins at new stores; the availability of financing to pursue our new store
openings on satisfactory terms or at all; our ability to compete effectively
with other retailers; our ability to maintain price competitiveness; the
geographic concentration of our stores; our ability to maintain or improve our
operating margins; our history of net losses; ordering errors or product supply
disruptions in the delivery of perishable products; restrictions on our use of
the Fairway name other than on the East Coast and in California and certain
parts of Michigan and Ohio; our ability to retain and attract senior
management, key employees and qualified store-level employees; rising costs of
providing employee benefits, including increased healthcare costs and pension
contributions due to unfunded pension liabilities; our ability to satisfy our
ongoing capital needs and unanticipated cash requirements; and other risk
factors detailed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(“SEC”), and available at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
You are urged to consider these factors carefully in evaluating the
forward-looking statements herein and are cautioned not to place undue reliance
on such forward-looking statements, which are qualified in their entirety by
this cautionary statement.  The forward-looking statements made herein
speak only as of the date of this press release and the company undertakes no
obligation to publicly update such forward-looking statements to reflect
subsequent events or circumstances.

Media Contact: 

DKC
Public Relations, Marketing & Government Affairs

Bruce
Bobbins/ 212 981 5190

Susan
Graziano/ 212 981 5130

Gary
Baronofsky/ 212 981 5140

Investor
Contact:

Fairway
Group Holdings Corp

Nicholas
Gutierrez

Manager
of Finance & Investor Relations

(646)
616-8103