Do you do that?
I hadn’t thought of looking into a restaurants’ kitchen before I ate there. I always thought if I asked to ‘see the kitchen’, the management would wonder why?
“What are you looking for? Is there something wrong?”
Some friendly advice ...
NEVER go into the kitchen of a place where you like to eat.
I almost never eat out since I returned from Germany in 1970. My experience overseas was that you never knew what was going on back there - mold, rats, bugs non-working freezers if they had one.
Her in the states only a couple - one was as bad as anything I saw in Europe and Turkey, the other was a Chinese restaurant where they stopped me bor a few minutes before allowing me in - I assume they were slicing a local pet for meat.
Then there was the Mickey D’s where I could see into the food area where the people were handling the cooked and uncooked food with bare hands.
So I no longer eat out - and then (when invited out) only select foods - which can be identified (like shrimp) and not processed.
Yes, usually there is something wrong even in the best of restaurants - TV food shows often feature the food handling and storage problems.