Today, in developing news, we get word via press release and the Scoop that chef Gordon Drysdale — most recently of Bacchus Management Group’s Café Des Amis and Pizza Antica restaurants, and of the dot-com-era Gordon’s House of Fine Eats — is busting out on his own. He’s apparently got multiple “opportunities” in the works, about which he’s not speaking just yet, but for now he is parting ways with Bacchus to spend more time with his family. Bacchus writes that Drysdale’s “intelligence, wit, and creativity will be deeply missed.” [Grub Street, Scoop]