Pick's Roadside

Pick's opened in 1923 as Reed and Bell's Root Beer Stand, a regional A&W franchisee founded by Lewis Reed and H.C. Bell, on the road through Cloverdale. Mayo and Johnie Mae Pickard bought the roadside drive-in in the early 1950s and gave it the name generations of Cloverdale families have known it by. When the business went up for sale in 2024, its future was uncertain; Anidel Hospitality, the Sonoma-based group led by Chris Fanini that also revived the Sonoma Cheese Factory, chose to restore rather than raze it, reopening the century-old stand as Pick's Roadside in January 2026 with fifth-generation Cloverdale resident Amber Lanier as general manager. The renovation keeps the roadside Americana intact while quietly upgrading the kitchen, and a stand that has fed Cloverdale for a century is open again for a new generation.