Still of José Andrés and crew at minibar courtesy WETA

Local “celebrity” chef groupies and aspiring foodies itching for a glimpse inside their favorite D.C. restaurants’ kitchens can get an hour’s worth of behind-the-scenes restaurant dirt (in the figurative, NOT the literal sense) tonight as WETA premieres the latest installment of its local D.C. documentary-style series: The WETA Guide to Fine Dining. The guides, which are produced four times a year, cull together some of D.C.’s most notable sites and establishments into half and whole hour-long segments — luckily producers devoted a full hour for this installment. Previous episodes have highlighted D.C.’s memorials, the area’s unusual attractions and neighborhood eats, among others.

The WETA Guide to Fine Dining profiles more than 20 fine dining restaurants throughout the D.C. area, a project the crew researched and shot over three months leading up to the program’s premiere tonight at 9 p.m. on WETA TV 26.

We know what you’re thinking — tough job working for WETA and having to spend three months dining out at D.C.’s best restaurants. Were that the case, you’d be right. If a previous WETA Guide on neighborhood restaurants is any indication, however, the documentary-style program is less food review, and more of a Food Network-style travel show: interviews with executive chefs, owners and their loyal (and enthusiastic) patrons who are happy to rave about them.