Lastminute.com Labs have launched a new location aware service called FoneFood, a multi-lingual restaurant table reservation web application for mobile devices. FoneFood combines your current location with your cuisine preference and then displays a list of restaurants nearby on a Google Map as well as individual listings.

Each listing shows details such as a description of the restaurant, distance from your current location, Google Map with directions, approximate cost of dining, special offers, phone number & complete address of the restaurant. You can then proceed to booking where you need to fill in details such as date of reservation, type of session whether breakfast, lunch or dinner, party size and finally details about yourself and your mobile number. A detailed confirmation SMS text message is then sent to your cellphone.

The application comes in two flavors: one for Windows Mobile browser IE Mobile with the latest Geolocation enabled Google Gears plug-in and the other one for all types of mobile browsers. The Geolocation API allows web applications to get an approximate region-level estimate of a user’s location based on their IP address as well as a more precise location based on GSM cell-ID of nearby cellular towers or on-board GPS. For other browsers, a user need to manually select and enter their location.

Visit FoneFood at m.lastminute.com, then click the “Find your location” link on the home page if you are using IE Mobile with the latest version of Google Gears for Windows Mobile. Otherwise, you can enter your location manually to get a list of nearby restaurants. To see the list of devices that support the Location feature of Google Gears, click here.

FoneFood is available in 12 European countries and gives users access to over 6,000 restaurants. If you are looking for US restaurant reservations, you may want to look at OpenTable at mobile.opentable.com which provides a mobile web interface to book tables but without any automatic location detection feature.