The menu was enchanting. The setting, looking down over the Valley from Camelback Mountain, beautiful. The service was very good. The food was lousy. It may be because we ate late for Phoenix (arrived at 9:00). It may be because we ordered badly. It may be because they had an off night. Regardless, my sesame coated sweetbreads might as well have been tired hush puppies. Very heavily breaded, no taste of sweeetbreads, sauced in an overpoweringly sweet, red chili jelly, and served on top of a bed of wilted turnip greens, it was awful. But it was better than the \"Eggplant spring roll\" main course which was comprised of three rollatini of thinly sliced, grilled eggplant wrapped around couscous with a few pistachios (I think), swimming in a gelatinous, overly thickened, soy flavored, sweet sauce that easily rivaled the sweetbreads'  chili jelly in nastiness. My wife enjoyed her pear salad but thought the devil fried oysters were very poor. She didn't care for the side of roasted cauliflower; I thought it was the best thing I ate. The bottle of Sancere we ordered arrived at room temperature. Our host seemed to enjoy her squash soup though I think she was so-so on the chopped salad.\nWe've eaten at Elements several times before and I'm sure we'll try it again because of all the great things that so many have written about it recently. When we do I'll post a new review.