RestaurantsLive.mobi offers a sort of video Yellow Pages for restaurants on the iPhone – although so far only for restaurants in California’s Bay Area (San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Beverly Hills etc.).

You choose a city and then browse through restaurants as you would expect in any guide of this type. But … as well as getting one-touch dialing options and driving directions to each place, you can also check out a little video overview of what they’ve got to offer.

This seems a very cool idea to me, and I’d love to see it extend to cover major cities everywhere. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then video is rapidly getting to be worth a hundred pictures in our thirst for fast, online information.

I can just picture this being a much quicker way to size up a place when I’m out with The Spouse and we’re trying to pick a new place to try. It can be tedious when you’ve both got to read through a restaurant review, look at pictures etc. This way you just sit back and watch a few clips and hopefully you pick your winner. Unfortunately it does not cover Austin yet.

Check out RestaurantsLive on your iPhone at:

http://www.restaurantslive.mobi/

If you’re in the Bay Area, you can even go give one of the spotlighted restaurants a whirl. Now when is Austin getting added???

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