WPChina on "How to include an RSS feed or search results on a single template?"

I am using Custom Post Types, so the title of each post is the name of a restaurant. On each single-restaurant.php I wan to also include a list of related news from our site related to this restaurant.

I think the easiest ay is to show a list of the search results via RSS. So I have this code:

<?php include_once(ABSPATH.WPINC.'/feed.php');
$rss = fetch_feed('http://www.website.com/search/'.the_title()'/feed');
$maxitems = $rss->get_item_quantity(5);
$rss_items = $rss->get_items(0, $maxitems);
?>
<ul>
<?php if ($maxitems == 0) echo '<li>No items.</li>';
else
// Loop through each feed item and display each item as a hyperlink.
foreach ( $rss_items as $item ) : ?>
<li>
<a href='<?php echo $item->get_permalink(); ?>'
title='<?php echo 'Posted '.$item->get_date('j F Y | g:i a'); ?>'>
<?php echo $item->get_title(); ?></a>
</li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

But I am getting errors on the fetch_feed where I am trying to call the_title. Any idea how to fix this to make it work? I know thee are plugins that show related news, but I wan to hardcode this code into the theme without using a plugin.