Every now and then, we take a break from tracking down the best menswear on the web and direct our finely honed shopping acumen elsewhere: to the best non-menswear releases of the last few weeks. From nifty kitchen upgrades to headache-saving tech, this is all the new gear worth your time and hard-earned dollars.
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Via Carota Negroni set
New York City’s buzzy Italian restaurant Via Carota, the brainchild of chefs Jody Williams and Rita Sodi, is notoriously difficult to snag a reservation for. But the pair are now offering something you can enjoy from the comfort of your own home: bottled cocktails. While it doesn’t compare to grabbing a table at the restaurant, these ready-made cocktails will hit the spot without any shaking or stirring necessary. Pick your poison among six cocktails—from whiskey-based drinks to a couple of Negronis—in addition to themed gift sets, which include some swanky glassware.
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Thuma dresser
Thuma, makers of our favorite bed frame, now sells an excellent dresser to round out your bedroom setup. Like pretty much everything else Thuma makes, the minimalist storage system is wildly easy to put together without any tools since the pieces slide together in a cinch. Available in three finishes, it’ll grow (or shrink) as you progress with your life—or buy and sell new clothes.
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Herman Miller Passport work table
The midcentury masters over at Herman Miller have a new WFH essential for our remote work times. Its Passport table is a mobile, height-adjustable desk that essentially turns any seat in your house into an office chair (but for real, get a damn office chair). Passport comes in two sizes, in either a stationary or mobile configuration. And if you feel so inclined, you can add on some privacy screens—like if you want to hide your screen from nosy roommates—or bag hooks to keep your goods on hand.
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Brooks Catamount 2
Brooks is venturing out to the trails with its first outdoor collection—called the High Point line—which includes waterproof jackets, running shorts, as well as some new trail runners called the Catamount 2. They’re light and responsive, decked out with a high-traction outsole, and equipped to handle treacherous inclines courtesy of the shoe’s SkyVault propulsion plate.
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Hatch Restore 2
The original Hatch is one of our favorite fully-loaded alarm clocks that does a whole lot more than just wake you up, and even nabbed a Home Award last year for its bag of tricks (including a suite of sleep and wake alarm features, meditations, and so on). Now the brand is launching its follow-up, the Hatch 2, that features new colors and improved hardware, enhanced lights and sounds, plus a fresh Morning Moment feature that helps you set up your own customized morning ritual. It’s $70 more than the OG clock, though we still think the original is an excellent buy.
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Laundry Day stainless steel ashtray
These days, ashtrays (and other weed-related gear) don’t look like they’re meant for any of that 21-and-up stuff. Laundry Day’s new ashtray continues that trend. Designed in collaboration with Argentinian designer Alvaro Ucha Rodriguez, the ashtray features an industrialist aesthetic, and it’s nice enough for the design-obsessed to buy purely because it looks good.
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Symbodi Vertigun
“Can you get my back?” is something you’ll never have to ask again with Symbodi’s Vertigun, a wall-mounted percussive therapy massage gun that helps you get all the achy hard-to-reach places on your own. An airlock mount keeps the gun steadily on the wall while you reposition your body to pummel all your sore spots, though you can still use it manually to focus pressure anywhere you need it.
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Good Eggs Momofuku fried chicken bao buns with pickles
California-based food delivery service Good Eggs will help you get your groceries without ever having to leave your home, but it’s also a really excellent place to get meal kits. So good, in fact, that David Chang’s Momofuku partnered with Good Eggs on a line of meals that include this fried chicken bao meal. You’ll have to be proficient with deep frying at home, but it’ll be worth the grease splatter, we think.
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Marshall Middleton speaker
Marshall’s amps are beloved by some of the world’s best musicians, and its speakers and headphones offer that same excellent audio quality for us regular folks. Its new Middleton speaker is the latest in the brand’s portable speaker lineup, with this model primed for bigger, bolder sound. Its quad-speaker setup blasts audio from all four sides. Plus, its IP67 rating means the thing is fully waterproof. And if you buy a bunch of them, you can enter Stack Mode to literally stack all of the speakers to create a powerful wall of sound.
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Baxter of California Valley Mist eau de parfum
Grooming brand Baxter of California looked inward to expand its fragrance line with two new scents inspired by the Golden State: Valley Mist and Canyon Incense (cue “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”). Valley Mist is a brighter, lighter more daytime scent whereas Canyon Incense evokes more of a sultry woodsy aroma that’s primed for nighttime. Don’t take those as hard and fast rules though, and spritz with abandon whenever you please.
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Monkey 47 Distiller’s Cut 12th edition Schwarzwald dry gin
The “47” in Monkey 47’s name denotes the 47 botanicals that go into distilling the gin. Every year, the brand releases a Distiller’s Cut, which introduces a 48th ingredient, and this year, it’s woodruff. Woodruff, a type of herb, adds a sweet earthiness to the gin, and it also happens to flourish at Monkey 47’s distillery in Germany’s Black Forest. The new Distiller’s Cut is a little spicy and a little herbaceous, and it’s a fun one to experiment with your favorite gin-based drinks.
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Le Labo Ambroxyde 17 candle
Le Labo’s back with a new candle that it’s calling “addictive,” which is likely no hyperbole for the brand that launched Santal 33. The new scent centers on ambroxyde, an ingredient that stars in the brand’s popular Another 13 fragrance, but this time it’s combined with musk, wood, and jasmine for a sweet, sensual olfactory experience.
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Grovemade desk pad
Office desk setup looking a little tired? Add a desk pad! Functionally, desk pads help you organize your office supplies, and there’s something about working on one that just makes you feel more productive. Grovemade upped its desk pad offerings by adding some bold new colors to its desk pad offerings, which come in leather, merino wool, and matte linoleum.
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Dewar’s Valentine’s Day Box
Can’t figure out what to get the man in your life for Valentine’s Day? We’ve got a gift guide for him—and everyone else on your list—but you can just send him a bottle of whisky for the big day. Blended Scotch whisky brand Dewar’s is letting you customize a bottle of its juice—whether it’s the 12-, 15-, or 18-year old—with a personalized label. Then add a special Valentine’s Day card written by the former editor of Esquire, Jay Fielden, who’s as quippy as ever.
