<<... a mobile way of accessing categorised business listings based on location: enter your address and choose from seven predefined sections – Food/Restaurant, Travel, Transportation, Retail, Entertainment, Sports and, oddly, Googleplex – which all have local attractions. >>

http://www.phonemag.com/google-lcb-localised-mobile-category-search-uncovered-031896.php

Try this on your mobile device: http://www.google.com/m/lcb
(it will work on your normal browser but won't look right)

I played around with the Food/Restaurant category and was surprised that it wasn't showing me closest restaurants on top and then start to list the farther ones at the bottom. I searched for Fast Food and it showed farther locations for McDonalds when there was one within 2 miles of me.