A "roadhouse" is a place, usually located next to a road, where people can stop to eat, drink, and sometimes stay overnight. It is often similar to a restaurant or a small inn. Full definition
Those dry communities are to be commended for their efforts to control alcohol consumption, but the sheer number of liquor outlets at Roadhouses on the Highway and in the closest towns undermines their efforts to live safe and peacefully in their local community. (naccho.org.au)
Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer continue to anchor the show as telepathic roadhouse waitress Sookie Stackhouse and soulful vampire Bill Compton, one of the many undead bloodsuckers who «came out» with the invention of synthetic blood and is attempting to find his place in human society. (seanax.com)
When we left Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) at the end of Season Three, the telepathic roadhouse waitress turned vampire paramour of Bon Temps, Louisiana, had been transported to Faerieland, which turns out to be a lot less like a Disney movie than a horror movie. (seanax.com)