Elsa Barbro "Barbara" Ekenberg (1717–25 May 1799), was the owner and manager of a coffeehouse in Stockholm in 1772–1799.
She was a figure in the work of Carl Michael Bellman, who dedicated to her one of his Fredman's Epistles, No.
9 "Käraste Bröder Systrar och Vänner", with the dedication Till Gumman på Thermopolium Boreale och hennes jungfrur ('To the Old woman of the Thermopolium Boreale and her maidens').
[2] Bellman described her as squinting and fat but her "maidens" (waitresses) as beautiful, and her house widely known for its music and merry atmosphere.
Gumman på Thermopoljum, Hon är det, ja ta mig Fan.