list of articles in a certain category showing title and preview picture..?

Hey guys,

I am looking to use WordPress as a CMS. I am having a bit of trouble with one aspect and am wondering what the best way of accomplishing it is. Please see the image at http://twitpic.com/1d9qzg to see what I am looking to do.

Basically each of those restaurants would be in a category called restaurants. So I would need to pull the title and a preview picture from each article in that category. I can likely code this all myself, but if there is already a plugin or something that does this please let me know. I can figure out how to loop through the category and pull the title for each article, but what is the best way to do the preview picture.

Thank you guys for any info you can provide me with.