That might be just how the sets were set up in the soundstage. I saw the plans for the TNG set somewhere, I think, and it looked weird with the quarters, ten forward, sick bay and the bridge all connected up...
Behind it may have been the mess hall.....
Well, yeah, I imagine anyone connected with the production was answering a question about where that corridor went IRL, not where it led on the ship.
The huge windows on Voyager's messhall do not line up with anything on the back of the bridge module.
As I mentioned upthread there is no mystery that the mess hall was on Deck Two canonically. Referred to constantly as such in onscreen dialogue.