Steph C.
Yelp
We spent two nights at the JW Marriott in Anaheim, which charged us a $30 daily destination fee that came with a $30 daily food and beverage credit. We used that credit to get breakfast at Tocca Ferro, the hotel's lobby level restaurant.
It was a nice enough place, calm and comfortable with a grown-up feel for a Disneyland-adjacent spot, in keeping with the blandly upscale JW Marriott. We went between 8:00 and 8:30 both mornings, and it was pretty quiet, with most tables empty. Given that, the service was surprisingly slow and inattentive. Not a great thing if you're trying to wrangle two kids, one of them a three-year-old who knows the next stop is Disneyland. We waited a full half hour for our food the first morning, and the children were starting to fall apart by the time it arrived. The staff was friendly, at least.
I guess we would've saved time by opting for the buffet, but it didn't look like a great spread for the price, $32 per adult and $15 per kid. Our one-year-old was free, and we did grab him yogurt and a little smoked salmon. It would've been helpful if someone had mentioned this while we were waiting that half hour for our food to arrive. I only got the go-ahead to get him yogurt when I asked if I could grab one and pay for it.
The a la carte menu was notably expensive, some real inflated hotel/Disney pricing for solidly okay fare. I had a $17 Bloody Mary that was decent but forgettable, and my entrées were both $24 and did not contain any meat. The chilaquiles were good, at least, a plate of fried tortilla with over easy eggs, housemade guajillo salsa, black beans, pickled onion, avocado, queso fresco, sour cream, and cilantro. I was less into the Brussels sprout and asparagus hash, an underseasoned mix of vegetables served with hash brown and sunny side up eggs. I also tried the sage pork and chicken apple sausages, which I used to supplement my entrées and feed my carnivorous baby. These were both tasty. My husband and older boy had pancakes. The ones from the kids' menu were shaped like Mickey.
I wouldn't go out of my way to eat at Tocca Ferro, but we liked the JW Marriott and are somewhat likely to come back on a future trip to Disneyland. If so, we'll have breakfast here again, and I just hope the service is faster or our children better behaved.