Recipe: BOMBAZO PAMBAZO SANDWICH Mexican-style sandwich filled with chorizo, potatoes, avocado, sour cream and pineapple pickled red onions, served on a roll, brushed with guajillo salsa and griddled.

The pambazo is this Midwestern expat’s sandwich salvation. It doesn’t quite fill the Italian-sub-sized hole in my heart, but it certainly has the power to make me forget about it for a while.

Pambazos are special tortas that are found at stands---as opposed to torterias or sandwich shops---serving quesadillas, gorditas, huaraches, tacos and other comforting masa -based delights.

Food Truck Report: This ‘Mad Max’-themed truck serves pambazos with 12 hot sauces The Toecutter sandwich from the Mad Pambazos, a food truck that specializes in pambazo sandwiches.

Chef David Wang of Asadito in the West Loop joins WGN Weekend Morning News to share his recipe for the “Yo Quiero Pambazo Burger.” Wang’s burger won the 2021 Hamburger Hop, a signature event ...

Similarly, pambazos rely on a bolillo-style bread roll, though theirs is dipped in a red pepper sauce instead of being allowed to crisp up on the outside.

Chicago is home to some of the best Mexican sandwiches you’ll find anywhere outside of Mexico — here are 11 of our favorites.

What you gotta try: You gotta try the pambazo at Antojitos Mexicanos, 3512 Summitview Ave., the Yakima Valley’s longtime favorite sit-down Mexican restaurant.