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# Sándwich de Lomo
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/sandwich-de-lomo/
- Published: 2026-05-17T17:24:13.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-26T14:57:40.000Z
- Description: Lomo sandwich; alternative name for lomito.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: Argentina, Submarine Sandwiches, Lomito, #auto-imported

**🇦🇷 Argentina** · Family: [Lomito](https://onesandwich.com/tag/lomito/) · Heat: Grilled · Bread: pan-frances · Proteins: beef

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Ingredients

pan frances · beef tenderloin · lettuce · tomato · cheese · mayonnaise · ham

The *Sándwich de Lomo* is the steak sandwich named for its cut, *lomo*, beef tenderloin grilled and laid into bread. It is the same sandwich most of Argentina orders as a *lomito*; the longer name simply states the cut outright instead of using the diminutive that has become the everyday word for it. The angle is the tenderloin. *Lomo* is the leanest and most tender muscle on the animal, prized for its texture, which means the sandwich hinges entirely on cooking it correctly: hot and fast to a clean sear with the inside left pink, because a lean cut pushed past medium turns dry and chalky and no amount of sauce brings it back.

The build is generous and treated as a meal rather than a snack. The bread is a substantial roll, pan francés or a wider sandwich bread with enough body to carry a full portion of meat, split and frequently toasted or warmed on the grill. The *lomo* is sliced thin and seared fast over high heat or on a plancha, salted simply, and pulled while the interior is still juicy. It goes into the bread hot, and from there the build opens up: cheese melted over the meat, lettuce and tomato for freshness, mayonnaise or one of the Argentine sauces. Good execution is tenderloin seared outside and moist inside, sliced thin enough to bite cleanly, the bread crisp rather than sodden, the toppings supporting the meat instead of burying it. Sloppy execution overcooks the lean cut until it is gray and tight, drowns it in sauce to compensate, or stacks so much salad and condiment that the tenderloin disappears beneath it.

It varies the same way the *lomito* does, by how much is piled on and by region. Kept to meat, lettuce, and tomato it is the plain register; loaded with ham, cheese, a fried egg, and mayonnaise it becomes the maximal version; an egg alone shifts it one way, a pita and Middle Eastern dressings another. Because *sándwich de lomo* and *lomito* name the same thing, the more specific builds, the loaded, the plain, the egg, the Arab-influenced form, are best treated as variations in their own right rather than crowded in here. What this name pins down is the cut: a tenderloin sandwich whose quality stands or falls on the sear.

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## More from this family

Other [Lomito](https://onesandwich.com/tag/lomito/) sandwiches in Argentina:

- [Lomito al Pan](https://onesandwich.com/lomito-al-pan/)
- [Lomito Árabe](https://onesandwich.com/lomito-arabe/)
- [Lomito Completo](https://onesandwich.com/lomito-completo/)
- [Lomito Común](https://onesandwich.com/lomito-comun/)
- [Lomito con Huevo](https://onesandwich.com/lomito-con-huevo/)
- [Lomito con Jamón y Queso](https://onesandwich.com/lomito-con-jamon-y-queso/)
- [Lomito con Panceta](https://onesandwich.com/lomito-con-panceta/)
- [Lomito Especial](https://onesandwich.com/lomito-especial/)

[See all Lomito sandwiches →](https://onesandwich.com/tag/lomito/)