Milano’s Dining Room Hit by Tax Order on East Broad, Carryout Continued
A Sept. 10 Ohio Department of Taxation notice paused dine-in at 6916 E. Broad St. while catering kept the kitchen busy.
A long-running East Broad Italian room spent mid-September navigating a hard pause on dine-in. As of September 10, the Ohio Department of Taxation posted a notice at Milano’s Italian Restaurant, 6916 E. Broad St. in Reynoldsburg, stating the storefront was prohibited from making retail sales, which halted the dining room even as carryout and catering stayed in play.
Owner Eric Sturman told 614NOW the squeeze followed the earlier shutdown of a BBQ concept under the same ownership, which left bills behind until catering volume nearly doubled sales and started digging out the debt. He said the team intended to reopen full operations as soon as the order cleared. The restaurant’s own site later posted that full service was welcome again, so diners should confirm the current status before driving for a table.
Details in this story draw from 614NOW’s report on the taxation notice and Milano’s public site at milanosoh.com.
What stayed open, and what did not
Under the pink tax notice, the dining room could not seat retail guests. Carryout remained available, and Sturman pointed to a large catering platform as the cash-flow bridge. Milano’s has been a ColumBEST Best Restaurant in Reynoldsburg winner in 2025 and 2026 and has served the East Side Italian lane since 2001, which made the temporary dark dining room a neighborhood story beyond one week’s paperwork.
That history is why the pause mattered: East Broad regulars treat Milano’s as a reservation room for birthdays and group tables, not only a takeout counter. When dine-in snapped back, the practical advice stayed the same as any tax-order reopen: call ahead, check the site banner, and confirm hours before you count on a booth.
How East Side diners should read the moment
Independent restaurants still carry stacked concepts and state enforcement risk. Milano’s case shows how a second concept’s collapse can pull a flagship dining room offline even when catering is climbing. For readers tracking openings and closings this fall, treat the September 10 notice as the hard date, then verify whether full service has fully resumed.
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Confirm Milano’s current dine-in status at 6916 E. Broad St. before you go, and keep catering in mind if the dining room is still limited.
