Manchester's restaurant and café scene is now bigger than ever - with long-standing independents, big chains and new businesses cropping up all the time. But, before the rise of the likes of Starbucks and Costa, or cafe cultur e as we know it today - there was Kardomah. Founded in Liverpool in 1844, Kardomah is credited as Britain's first coffee house chain and evolved out of a tea dealing company to become the place to be seen in cities across the UK.