What is "roadhouses"

Usage examples of "roadhouses".

She got hysterical and started to rave about an angel with a sword who would walk through the parking lots of roadhouses and cut down the wicked.

Sometimes they would drive all the way to Windsor, and stop at roadhouses that featured cocktails and ferocious piano-playing and raffish dancing—roadhouses frequented by gangsters involved in the rum-running, who would come up from Chicago and Detroit to make their deals with the law-abiding distillers on the Canadian side.