Tostado
Four words at the café table, un tostado y un cortado, and the press answers: crustless pan de miga striped gold around ham and machine-cut cheese, quartered into triangles timed to the coffee.
Tostado & Carlitos
Tostado Especial
Special tostado; with additional ingredients (egg, tomato, etc.).
Tostado de Jamón y Queso
Ham and cheese tostado; the classic café order. Thin ham, mild cheese, pressed until golden.
Tostado de Jamón Crudo y Queso
Cured ham and cheese tostado; with jamón crudo.
Tostadas
Toast; simple breakfast toast with butter, jam, or dulce de leche.
Tostadas con Dulce de Leche
Toast with dulce de leche; iconic Argentine breakfast.
Carlitos
A plain ham-and-cheese tostado with one heretical addition: ketchup. A Rosario bar owner improvised the Carlito in 1953, and in 2014 the city council voted it into protected cultural heritage.