According to our local CAMRA these are in the rankings
The Albion, Greengates
The Goldsborough, Bolton Road
The Woodman, Manchester Road
there's the regular standbys of
The Fighting Cock on Preston Street off Thornton Road
The New Beehive on Westgate
Haigy's on Lumb Lane
and the Weatherspoon's (it's called the Sir Titus Salt) where the Windsor Baths, used to be just up from the Alhambra
A good curry house - now that is a difficult question (some might say an oxymoron), these days I prefer Italian.