Sweet Fingers Jamaican Restaurant and Bar is serving again at 1707 Telegraph Ave. in Uptown Oakland after moving from Foothill Boulevard.

Sweet Fingers Jamaican Restaurant and Bar is serving again at 1707 Telegraph Ave. in Uptown Oakland, after Oaklandside/Nosh reported July 14 (external source, opens in a new tab) that the longtime Oakland restaurant had soft-opened on Telegraph Avenue following its move from a Foothill Boulevard location that closed in April.

The restaurant’s own site now sends customers to 1707 Telegraph Ave. (external source, opens in a new tab), lists the phone number as (510) 553-9869, and describes the return as a “New Location in Oakland,” with Sweet Fingers offering its Jamaican food to the community again. Posted hours are noon to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and noon to midnight Friday and Saturday, a schedule that gives the room a late-week bar-and-dinner lane in the Uptown corridor.

The public menu points to a kitchen returning with the dishes customers would expect from the name: stewed oxtail, curry chicken dinner, ackee and salt fish, rasta pasta, macaroni pie, jerk chicken, whole fish escovitch and rum punch all appear on the restaurant’s current site. Oaklandside/Nosh’s July item also described the soft-opening board as built around Jamaican plates, fish, goat, wings and plantains. The site now advertises online ordering, catering, private parties and reservations, which matters for a restaurant trying to carry a higher-visibility address with more than walk-in dinner service.

What is not public yet is part of the business story, too. The fetched pages do not post a seat count, lease terms, build-out cost or a clean current price point, and a San Francisco business-registration lookup returned no match for “Sweet Fingers,” which is expected for an Oakland address and is not evidence for the reopening. The supported facts are simpler: Sweet Fingers has moved from Foothill to Telegraph, is serving again, and is asking regulars and new Uptown customers to find it in a more visible room.

For Oakland dining, that is a concrete bet rather than a mood. A restaurant with history is not starting from zero, but Telegraph asks a different kind of math: longer hours, event-night foot traffic, private-party tabs and enough weeknight covers to make the move work.