In this work we prove that the initial value problem (IVP) associated to the two-dimensional Benjamin-Ono equationwhere H denotes the Hilbert transform with respect to the variable x and ∆ is the Laplacian with respect to the spatial variables x and y, is locally well-posed in the periodic Sobolev space H s (T 2 ), with s > 7/4. Using the abstract theory developed by Kato in [9] and [10], it can be established the local well-posedness (LWP) of the IVP (1.1) in H s (T 2 ), with s > 2. Nevertheless this approach ignores the dispersive effects of the linear part of the equation in (1.1). The Cauchy problem for the one-dimensional BO equation (1.4) has been extensively studied on the real line and in the periodic setting. On the real line, using the dispersive character of the linear part of the equation, global well-posedness (GWP) of the IVP for the BO equation (1.4) has been established in H s (R), for s = 3 2 by Ponce in [22] and LWP was proved for s > 5 4 in [13] by Koch and Tzvetkov. In [12], based on ideas of Koch and Tzvetkov in [13], Kenig and Koenig obtained a refined version of the Strichartz estimate, which allowed them to establish LWP of the 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 35Q53.