Santa Nella, California: Pea Soup Andersen's
Restaurant has a Danish theme and features a windmill and an outdoor mallet-waving cartoon chef photo-op.
- Address:
- Santa Nella Blvd., Santa Nella, CA
- Directions:
- I-5 exit south of Gustine/Santa Nella at Hwy 33 -- watch for the windmill. 10 miles south of Gustine.
- Phone:
- 209-826-1685
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Best pea soup in the state! They sell ice cream and cans of soup. They make the best lunches too! Fun place to stop off the I-5.
[Kay, 07/03/2025]
Pea Soup Andersen's offers good food at decent prices. There is a huge gift shop.
[David, 11/10/2018]
Pea Soup Andersen's has a fun cutout for a pic opportunity.
[Trish Wallis, 10/03/2016]
Get the Traveler's Special - a bottomless bowl of pea soup!
[Amy Evans, 07/22/2011]
The chain of Andersen's Pea Soup restaurants may have shrunk, but you can still see their signature windmill and old Danish architecture along a few highways in California. The first Andersen's opened in Buellton in 1924.
The Andersen's on I-5 in Santa Nella was bustling during our lunchtime stop, with a line for seating in the dining room and a crowd perusing the gift shop, which stocks any windmill-shaped collectible you might crave.
Outside, you can still pose a couple of traveling pals in the head holes of Andersen's trademark Happea and Pea-Wee, where the cartoon chef splits peas with his mighty mallet.
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The "Traveler's Special" -- blessing and curse! We are always lured to order delicious, bottomless pea soup, but first do a mental inventory of rest stop opportunities along that Central Valley stretch of I-5.