Last week, we conducted a blind taste test and determined that of the two energy drinks dedicated to the late local rapper Mac Dre, Thizz Juice was the superior product. Now, it's time to pit two more Bay Area rap-related energy drinks against each other: Hyphy, from Oakland's It's Good Beverage Co.; and 2Pac Energy Drink by 100 Racks Inc., also of Oakland.
100 Racks makes the Mac Dre drink that lost our first challenge, so how will its Tupac Shakur-branded beverage fare against Hyphy, the drink named for a youth movement that pretty much came and went already?
specializing in hard-to-find wines and liquors are located in SF. There's one other wine shop / liquor store on the Peninsula worth a detour: Weimax (1718 Broadway, Burlingame). If anything takes you down to SFO, you're almost there. It's just a five-minute drive from the terminal, a couple of exits down 101.
Like Beltramo's, Weimax has a lot of hard liquor you won't see elsewhere. I first visited the place after a trip to Southwest France, when I was looking for a local source for La Vielle Prune, a delicious oak-aged plum brandy ubiquitous in the Dordogne region, and they were the only store I called that had it.
Crazy Sushi (3232 16th St.) offers a decadent treat with its SF Giant Roll ($14). Buttery pieces of lobster are deep-fried and paired with avocado, cucumber and a sweet, creamy sauce that is almost dessert-like. The end pieces have an abundance of the meat and are therefore prone to being fought over, so you might want to hit those first.
