Gwendoline bears her first name just as her mother did: with pride and nobleness. She is therefore disappointed only to have three sons and no daughter to continue the tradition. She descends from a family of knights and aristocrats, which can even trace its roots back as far as the crusades. This connection to the knighthood is reflected in her restaurant in the form of shields and flamboyant texts, as well as in the characteristic, heavy Alsace meals, for which you have to be a real man. For example the Alsace sauerkraut, which has to cook for at least six hours and which contains five sorts of meat fried in lard.

Or the "Elzasser Baekeoffe", a pork, lamb and beef casserole, with potatoes and vegetables, and cooked in Alsace "Pinot Blanc", supplied by the wine shop "In Vine Veritas" belonging to Francois Stirner and his wife Julie. Ville de Reidy has two hotels: "Chez Geneviéve" belonging to the Pirmas family and "Hotel de Ville" belonging to Yvette Bayon and her husband Louis. But only Gwendoline serves "cuisine gastronomique". Her husband Stephan helps out where he is able and is the head waiter in the restaurant. He also makes home-made sausage and smokes hams in the shed behind the restaurant.

He gets the meat from the farm belonging to Michael Solange, but sometimes from "le docteur" Henry Waldkirch too, who still sometimes goes off into the countryside with a double-barrelled gun when no one is looking. But these meals all fade into insignificance alongside the "specilité exclusive" of the region: the "pâté de foie gras". This delicacy even tempts father Hanz Herbolz to come out of his church each week and treat himself. He always drinks a whole bottle of "Gewurzstraminer" with his meal. But nobody gossips about this, because it’s the only sin the father allows himself.