El Capitan Hotel

When the Rainbird restaurant opened in 2022 inside the remodeled El Capitan Hotel on Main Street in downtown Merced, it was imagined as a high-end, dining destination featuring locally-sourced foods and presentations that paid homage to the Central Valley and its farmers. There was nothing like it anywhere in the region.…

Members of Merced County’s Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) received an incredible gift from El Capitan Hotel just in time for the…

This summer, the historic El Capitan Hotel announces its partnership with Yosemite Area Regional Transportation System (YARTS), offering motor coach service…

Following a talk by author Mark Arax at the Multicultural Arts Center, the local organization, Friends of the Library, hosted a fundraising dinner at the banquet room in the El Capitan Hotel. Friends of the Library is a community non-profit which protects and promotes libraries throughout Merced County. The fundraiser gave supporters…

One of the promises the El Capitan Hotel made when they came to Merced was that they would create jobs and give back to the community. Last…

Merced’s top boutique and destination hotel — a renovated jewel for the downtown area — will be under new management starting in June, according to a…

The historic El Capitan hotel in downtown Merced will welcome Bay Area Guest Chef Phil Saneski for a “Salvage Social Hour” on April 21, from 5:30-7:30 p.m., in honor of Earth Day and Food Waste Prevention Week. Together with the hotel’s Executive Chef Quentin Garcia as well as chefs from UC Merced, they’ll be serving delicious upcycled foods…

Executive Chef Quentin Garcia of the El Capitan Hotel’s Rainbird restaurant — the first-of-its-kind fine dining restaurant in the Central Valley—will be…

Rainbird, the newly opened fine dining restaurant inside the El Capitan Hotel in downtown Merced, has started its Taste of Wine Country Dinner Series,…

Alexis Presto, age 18, is excited about completing the first ever 12-week Hospitality Career Academy, a program developed by Merced College in partnership with The Mainzer and El Capitan Hotel, which focuses on preparing students for careers in the growing hospitality industry.  She graduated on December 6, 2021. Presto told the Times,…